completely stumped by ereg()

From: Greg Beaver (greg_at_chiaraquartet.net)
Date: 11/30/03


To: php-general@lists.php.net
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:35:10 -0500

Why doesn't this match?

var_dump(ereg('C:\\\\W', 'C:\\\\WINNT\\\\TEMP\\tst5B.tmp'));

should print int(1), prints bool(false)

Thanks,
Greg