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[Research Names]

Where do the backslashes go on this expression?
if (ereg('The Duck Lists -&nbsp; Last Update: <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED"
S-Format="%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p" startspan -->(*)[AM|PM]', $domainlist, $parts)) {

[Reptilian Feline]

PHP Code:

if (ereg('The Duck Lists -&nbsp; Last Update: <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED"
S-Format="%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p" startspan -->(*)[AM|PM]', $domainlist, $parts)) { 


Is this the pattern you want to find?
'The Duck Lists -&nbsp; Last Update: <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED"
S-Format="%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p" startspan -->(*)[AM|PM]'

If I'm not mistaken... when a string is inside single quotes (') you don't need to escape anything with \.

[Burhan]

The only time you need to escape " is when your string starts with "

PHP Code:

$string = "This \"word\" needs escaping";
$string2 = 'This "word" does not'; 


Its prudent to point out that

PHP Code:

$string = "hello";
echo '$string\n';
echo "$string"; 


Will result in :

$string\nhello

(when a variable is encapsulated in ' ' it does not get interpreted).