Re: regular expresion problem

Hi,

That is because the * is greedy. It will expand the match as far as it
can. Place a question mark after the * to make it lazy.

$prefec_test = "/(.*?[\+_]).*/";

MD wrote:
I am trying to figure out the regular expression problem
In case of $test1, I want to have @@@_ as a result
and for $test2 @@@+. How can i achieve this?
When testing $test1 variable always gives me @@@_@@_A
as a output string. I don't know why this happen either.

//$test1 = "@@@_@@_AAA";
$test2 = "@@@+@@+AAA";

$prefec_test = "/(.*[\+_]).*/";
if(preg_match_all($prefec_test, $test, $item)){
foreach($item[1] as $link)
{
echo $link;
}
}

Thanks in advance.

MD.

.

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