It's OK, I think I've found the answer to my own question. The # signs bracket the actual regular expression, and the e and the s are modifiers - e is equivalent to PREG_REPLACE_EVAL and  s is equivalent to PCRE_DOTALL. Maybe these are things which are so familiar to the experienced players that they almost go without saying, but ...

I have the following regex statement I'm trying to run in PHP.  (?<!(end\s?zone|lower|upper)\s?)(view)  Testing against the following string: (matches in bold) "The endzone view goes hi upper view and he goes view and then goes view and view and view!!!" Notice "upper view" and "endzone view" are ...

kyeno: Wow, it works m8. Thanks a lot! Been tryin to solve it with a friend of mine for about 3 hours... Always happy to help.   kyeno: Looks i'll have to master the PCRE syntax. Any good sites about it You could recommend? I mean like step-by-step tutorials for noobs. :) As I mentioned in another thread several minutes ago ...

I understand that you want to match all the category names, i.e. the content of every <td></td> after an <tr>. If I remember correctly, PHP's POSIX extended regular expressions don't know ungreedy quantifiers. I prefer Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) anyway ...

Hello, I have written a regular expression that I think is syntactically correct but it when used with some versions of php it will cause a segmentation fault. While PCRE Version 7 is being accused for this bug it's not of much help to me. I am wondering if perhaps there is a way to rewrite the expression. Maybe someone has ideas on an ...

I've been trying to match the pattern below for about a week and can't seem to get it right. I need to match a specific string that is not hyper-linked or enclosed in brackets.I'm sure the code below won't match what i need. It's simply to illustrate what i'm aiming to accomplish: [^\{] word here[^\} ]  Any ...