preg_match_all finds only 1??

[mitya]

Can anyone help with this? I'm trying to find all occurrances of a regular expression in a string and put out the results to an array. I've tried using eregi and preg_match_all and every time it only finds one result.

Example of what to find: {-libItem29-}
Reg ex: "{-libItem[0-9]{0,}-}"

Am I missing something that makes it global? I thought preg_match_all was global by definition.

Thanks in advance.

[bokeh]

Post your code! In particular the regular expession and the target string.

[mitya]

$string = "{-libItem28-} (part of string not to be matched) {-libItem29-}";

preg_match_all("{-libItem[0-9]{0,}-}", $string, $matches);

echo count($matches);

//always puts out 1, even though there are clearly two instances of reg ex.

[bokeh]

//always puts out 1, even though there are clearly two instances of reg ex. That's correct. $matches[0] is the array containing all the global matches. So if you said echo count($matches[0]); it would return the number of matches. Example:<?php

$string = "{-libItem28-} (part of string not to be matched) {-libItem29-}";

preg_match_all("#{-libItem[0-9]{0,}-}#", $string, $matches);

echo count($matches[0]);

?>

[ShrineDesigns]

you need to escape things like {}()[]-.+?\/$^ etc as those characters have special meaning in regular expressions
RegExp\{\-libitem[0-9]+\-\}

[bokeh]

you need to escape things like {}()[]-.+?\/$^ etc as those characters have special meaning in regular expressions
RegExp\{\-libitem[0-9]+\-\}You don't need to escape them globally, only if necessary. The regex posted works just fine.

[ShrineDesigns]

i did see your post, i must posted my comment shortly after you did lol

the #...# is quite handy

[mitya]

Thanks guys. I eventually realised that everything was getting chucked into $array[0] - I guess I should have read the PHP manual page better.

As for escaping: yeah I expected I'd have to, but as bokeh says, it seems to work without having to.

Cheers again.