Question

I am wondering if someone could please help me convert a piece of PHP code that is now deprecated.

Here is the single line I am trying to convert:

eregi("<text>(.*)TYPE[ \r\n]*(OF|or)[ \r\n]*REPORTING[ \r\n]*PERSON",$string,$outp);

When I convert to the following:

preg_match("/<text>(.*)TYPE[ \r\n]*(OF|or)[ \r\n]*REPORTING[ \r\n]*PERSON/i",$string,$outp);

It matched nothing. The original eregi function works well.

Answer 1

You need the /is flag at the end of the regex.

The reason is that the preg_ function does not match linebreaks with .*, whereas the old ereg functions would do that per default.

Otherwise your regular expression should work unchanged with PCRE.