A bit stumped in Regex Syntax

[Mark]

hello!

I'm trying to use the POSIX regex syntax in PHP, and having a bit of
trouble with word boundary separators.

The basic syntax i have seen in the various tutorials i have read over the
last bit all suggest some variation on \< and \> or :<: and :>:, etc. i
have even seen code that uses:

[[:<:]][:alnum:][[:>:]] to match a word containing alphanumeric
characters.

however, i cannot seem to get this to work at all. every time i enter:

:<: in a regex, it does not match. if i enter [[:<:]], i get an error
stating that there is an "mbregex compile err: invalid POSIX bracket type"
in my file ...

any ideas what's going on?

thanks.

[please do not suggest that i use the preg_ functions instead ... i need a
multibyte character set (utf-8) compatible regular expression engine.]

mark.



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[John Dunlop]

Re: A bit stumped in Regex Syntax

Mark wrote:
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> if i enter [[:<:]], i get an error
> stating that there is an "mbregex compile err: invalid POSIX bracket type"
> in my file ...[/color]

So do I.
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> any ideas what's going on?[/color]

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31576

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[John Dunlop]

Re: A bit stumped in Regex Syntax

John Dunlop wrote:
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> Mark wrote:[/color]
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> > any ideas what's going on?[/color]
>
> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31576[/color]

D'oh! Should've checked the email address of the person who
submitted that bug report. It was you! We'll see how that
goes.

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[Mark]

Re: A bit stumped in Regex Syntax

John Dunlop wrote:
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> John Dunlop wrote:
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>> Mark wrote:[/color]
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>> > any ideas what's going on?[/color]
>>
>> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31576[/color]
>
> D'oh! Should've checked the email address of the person who
> submitted that bug report. It was you! We'll see how that
> goes.
>[/color]


:-). i was feeling kinda stupid as i was working through the problem, but
then tried it on my production (non-Windows :-)) machines and discovered
that it worked teh awes0me!11!1!

looks like it's only a problem on Winders WITH mbstring.dll enabled ...
*sigh*. That might be the first time i've ever seen Windows be the lousier
platform for intl support ... !!!

thanks,
mark.


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