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RaptorIV
RaptorIV

Reputation: 173

PHP REGEX single quote and white spaces

Hi I'm new to REGEX and want to be able to find a string with any character, white spaces, or a single quote in it. This is what I have:

    preg_match('/title="([A-Za-z\'\w]+)"/', 'title="Some ' text"', $match);
    echo $match[1];

I want this to output:

    Some ' text

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6989

Answers (2)

Iron3eagle
Iron3eagle

Reputation: 1077

This works, just tested it.

$match = array(); 
$text = "title=\"Some ' text\""; 
preg_match("/[a-z]*\s\'\s[a-z]*/i", $text, $match);
echo print_r($match);

It will out put

Array ( [0] => Some ' text ) 1

Upvotes: 0

Vadym Kovalenko
Vadym Kovalenko

Reputation: 652

You should escape quote inside string.

And add \s to your regexp, to match all whitespaces

Also \w covers a-zA-Z

 preg_match('/title="([\'\w\s]+)"/', 'title="Some \' text"', $match);
 echo $match[1];

Upvotes: 4

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