How do I ignore '.' in preg_match

Question

Hey guys I am trying to ignore periods using preg_match, so:

$pos1 = preg_match( "/.*(#\S+)/", $currentStatus , $match );
$hash = $match[1];

This will grab the 2 hashtag in twitter API but lets say they have #hi. <- it will grab the . to, so if someone puts a . by accident I want it to ignore that.

Not sure how to do this and would appreciate the help!

David

Answer 1

preg_match('/(#\S+[^\.\s])/', $currentStatus, $match);

or

preg_match('/(#[a-zA-Z0-9]+)/', $currentStatus, $match);

Answer 2

Why don't you just remove the dot from the result:

$hash = str_replace('.','', $match[1]);