I have this regex
(?i)\b((?:https?://|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))
but I'm having trouble with the comma. Escaping the comma like this \,
does not solve the problem. What can I do to make this regex works work??
My code:
if (preg_match("/(?i)\b((?:https?:\/\/|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))/", "https://google.com/picture.jpeg")) {
echo "A match was found.";
} else {
echo "A match was not found.";
}
Thanks in advance.
You should use single apostrophes here and escape the single apostrophe:
if (preg_match('/(?i)\b((?:https?:\/\/|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}\/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:\'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))/', "https://google.com/picture.jpeg")) {
// ^ ^ ^
echo "A match was found.";
} else {
echo "A match was not found.";
}
See IDEONE demo
Otherwise, you would have to double the backslashes to actually represent literal backslashes. Note that escaping a comma is not necessary at all. You don't even have to escape the hyphen at the final position inside the character class [a-z0-9.-]
.