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> What is REG_BADRPT? I've recently come across this warning. As I understand it, it's when an invalid regular expression is given to the inbuilt function ereg() or eregi() I got the warning when the following was executed at run-time: if (ereg("?", $url)) The problem seemed to go away when I escaped the ? as follows: if (ereg("\?", $url)) Further explanation ------------------- (This will be because the syntax of the ? in regular expression is to say that the character before it MIGHT be there. Since there is no character before the question mark, "?" is invalid as a regular expression). I'll quote from the helpful resource http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3 "In order to be taken literally, you must escape the characters "^.[$()|*+?{\" with a backslash ('\' , as they have special meaning." The article also points out: - you may need to escape a character twice because some characters need to be escaped in a PHP string too! - the case if different when characters are in [] square brackets. See the article for more details - it's very good at explaining regular expressions! Hope this helps someone :-)
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