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Re: preg_match() return false

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: preg_match() return false
Date 2020-12-27 15:33 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87im8n9scy.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> writes:

> $regex = file_get_contents(
>     // Download URç: https://files.fm/f/9mwzkn2wr
>     'data/regex'
> );
> $subject = file_get_contents(
>     // Download URL: https://files.fm/f/8xeaybz5z
>     'data/subject'
> );
>
> $matching = preg_match($regex, $subject);
>
> if (0 === $matching) {
>     echo "Matching is 0";
> } elseif (FALSE === $matching) {
>     echo "Matching is FALSE";
> } else {
>     echo "OK!!!";
> }
>
> Output:
>
> Matching is FALSE
>
> Why?

I don't know, but your regexp is odd.  If you delete the second line it
matches.  You don't need to .+¶ after matching .+¶ because the s
modifier means the first will match to the same place the second would.

Also, you don't need \ before - or :.

-- 
Ben.

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preg_match() return false alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2020-12-27 12:47 +0100
  Re: preg_match() return false tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield) - 2020-12-27 12:50 +0000
    Re: preg_match() return false alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2020-12-27 14:21 +0100
  Re: preg_match() return false Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-12-27 14:43 +0100
    Re: preg_match() return false alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2020-12-27 14:59 +0100
      Re: preg_match() return false Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2020-12-28 15:16 +0100
    Re: preg_match() return false alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2020-12-27 15:11 +0100
  Re: preg_match() return false Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-12-27 15:33 +0000
    Re: preg_match() return false alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2020-12-27 16:50 +0100
      Re: preg_match() return false alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2020-12-27 17:14 +0100
        Re: preg_match() return false Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2020-12-28 02:02 +0000
          Re: preg_match() return false alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2020-12-28 10:38 +0100
          Re: PHP_EOL (was: preg_match() return false) "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2020-12-28 15:43 +0100
            Re: PHP_EOL alex <1j9448a02@lnx159sneakemail.com.invalid> - 2020-12-29 15:55 +0100

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