Topic awaiting preservation: regular expression

can somebody tell me what's wrong with this regular expression ? It's in php.

eregi("^$series$volumenum-[0-9]{3}\.jpg$",$file)

so if $series was set to "Series Name"
and $volumenum was set to "01"
I want it to match any string that would be "Series Name01-xxx.jpg" Where xxx is any 3 digit number.

In your example "Series Name01-xxx.jpg" you have a space inbetween Series and Name but you don't allow for that in your regexp. Also your regexp will never match unless your target string is on a line by itself.

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After looking closer at your post and testing a little bit your regexp works the way you have it written for the test text you have supplied. I think the only problem you may have is as I said before. If the text you are looking for is not on a line by itself, it won't match.

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-Butcher-

[This message has been edited by butcher (edited 04-12-2003).]