regex question

[richardko]

hi,
how do i match anything in the expression other than "certain words".
Say i have bunch of strings like this:
1234.abc.com,
asd.abc.com,
ees.abc.com,

http://www.abc.com

Now i want to match all the strings that do not have "

http://www."

at the start of the string.
For example in the strings above the ones that would get through are:
1234.abc.com
asd.abc.com
ees.abc.com

the

http://www.abc.com

should not match.

I have the regext mostly figured out except it matches "

http://www.abc.com"

also.

$test = "[URL unfurl="true"]www.abc.com";[/URL]	
	$str2 = "/^[^www]\.?([^\.]+)\.abc\.com/";	
	if( preg_match($str2,$test,$match2) )
	{		
		print_r($match2);
	}

 

[YoungManRiver]

richardko,

Why aren't u using the "addslashes" function?

Exp:[/b}

$test = addslashes("www.abc.com");

Seems most ur problem is there!

YMR

 

[richardko]

thanks for your help but i figured it out...i was testing a mod_rewrite for apache in php and i figured if i could figure this out in php then it would work in mod_rewrite.

 

[thenewa2x]

Also just as a note for future reference, you can use preg_quote() to escape string for use in regular expressions.