Re: regular expression problem

condor wrote:
Karel de Vos wrote:
I think you want "\[([^\]]*?)\]"

I don't know what that should do. But when I try it (php ereg_replace)
I get an error message.

It is a perl regular expression:
$text = "This [is my'text] that is [between brackets] and so on..";
preg_match_all("/\[([^\]]*?)\]/",$text,$matches);
// now $matches[1] contains the text between the brackets in an array
print_r($matches[1]);

\] matches the character ] (and should be escaped as ] is the group closing bracket
*? matches the smallest portion (zero or more) characters that is not \]. as I think of it, the question mark can be left out since the expressions states that the character cannot be a \] and must be followed by a \]
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