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Felix C
Felix C

Reputation: 1775

RegEx pattern not matching php, but in c# / java / etc

I have a problem with regular expressions in php.

Got the following pattern: ^\s*(\d{8})\s+(.+?)\s+(\d+,\d{2})\s.?\s(.*)$

My search string is like: search string example 12345678 This is a little Product Description with some special characters like ® 16,00 € maybe some text here

I use this php code:

$regex = '/^\s*(\d{8})\s+(.+?)\s+(\d+,\d{2})\s.?\s(.*)$/';
echo preg_match($regex, $input);

But there is no match!

The same regex pattern in java or c# works! Can you explain me what I'm doing wrong?

Here some online regex tester:

PHP: http://regexp-evaluator.de/evaluator/d721ca1ed32d76db960262ba7298cff3/#ergebnis

Java: http://www.regexplanet.com/advanced/java/index.html

Upvotes: 0

Views: 333

Answers (2)

mario
mario

Reputation: 145512

You are missing the /u modifier.

After looking for the price value 0,00 your regex compares for a single character (.?) between spaces. But the Euro sign € usually occupies two bytes. This will only work in UTF-8 mode.

Upvotes: 5

BurninLeo
BurninLeo

Reputation: 4474

if not in multiline mode, the $ only matches the end of the complete string. If there is a newline-character or more data in $input, this may be the cause. In that case, simply put an "m" behind the final delimiter.

Further I wonder if (.+?) is correct. Have your tried (.*) instead?

BurninLeo

Upvotes: 0

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