Question

I have big problems to match this character: –

It’s something called a “en dash” U+2013 (according to http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm)

It’s a match with – in my test environment (windows and php 5.2.11) but fails on the production servers (ubuntu and php 5.3.2). Even \x2013 fails there.

Any suggestions how to match this strange character? Or how to config php to make it work?

Answer 1

if (preg_match ('~\xe2\x80\x93~', $string))
{
    echo "En Dash found";
}

I believe you’ve got an UTF-8 encoding, don’t you?