[pmwiki-users] Improving a certain recipe script

[H. Fox]

On 3/30/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

Neither of those is successful , nor is this:

    if (preg_match('!^ {.4,}$!s', $_POST['text'])) {

Hagan