[pmwiki-users] Improving a certain recipe script

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:33:38AM +0200, Dominique Faure wrote:
> > > Assuming you don't need to match newlines:
> > >
> > >     preg_match("!^ .{$SomeNumber,}!", ...)
> > It doesn't like the comma inside the curlies.
> 
> It seems that you hit the string variable parsing use of curlies.
> I would try:
> 
>     preg_match("!^ .{{$SomeNumber},}!", ...)

Dominique is likely correct, and I like the way he's written it
here.  I would've done

    preg_match("!^ .\{$SomeNumber,}!", ...)

but I think the double-curly form may be more reliable.

Pm