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

Maybe not related to original code example, but I received the error "Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash" and Googled here. Reason: I mixed order of parameters for preg_match. Pattern was the second parameter and string to match was first. Be careful :)