How to convert eregi to preg_match?

Question

I am using a lib which uses

eregi($match=\"^http/[0-9]+\\\\.[0-9]+[ \\t]+([0-9]+)[ \\t]*(.*)\\$\",$line,$matches)

but as eregi is deprecat

Answer 1

You need to escape the delimiters inside the regular expression (in this case the /):

"/^http\\/[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+[ \t]+([0-9]+)[ \t]*(.*)\$/i"

But you could also chose a different delimiter like ~:

"~^http/[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+[ \t]+([0-9]+)[ \t]*(.*)\$~i"