[thelist] backreferencing

Alex Beston alex.beston at gmail.com
Sun Aug 6 11:27:05 CDT 2006


Hi Evolters

$string = "<STRONG>some text</STRONG>";
$pattern = "/<(.*)>.*<\/\1>/";
preg_match_all($pattern, $string , $matches, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
print_r($matches);

Im trying to get backreferencing [AFAIK the \1 relates to the (.*) ]
working for php but i just get this:

Array ( [0] => Array ( ) [1] => Array ( ) )

argh!

what am I doing wrong? perhaps I need to change some settings in php.ini?

ta!

Alex



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