Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash and preg_match

Question

I have this code :

$string1 = \"My name is \'Kate\' and im fine\"; 
$pattern = \"My name is \'(.*)\' and im fine\"; 
preg_match($pattern , $string1, $matches         


        

Answer 1

The pattern must have delimiters. Delimiters can be a forward slash (/) or any non alphanumeric characters(#,$,*,...). Examples

$pattern = "/My name is '(.*)' and im fine/"; 
$pattern = "#My name is '(.*)' and im fine#";
$pattern = "@My name is '(.*)' and im fine@";