problem with german Umlauts (äüö letters) in regular expressions

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hi
i try to use regular expressions in php (e.g. $addressPattern = '/addressLines:\["[\w\s\düäöÄÖÜß-]+","[\w\s\düäöÄÖÜß-]+"\]/'; ) to get all addresse (with Umlauts as well), but it does not work : i get no addresses with Umlauts (äöü letters)

On my local machine(with german localization) it works fine.

may php.ini solve this problem?

Thanx in advance
 
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culebra99 said:
hi
i try to use regular expressions in php (e.g. $addressPattern = '/addressLines:\["[\w\s\düäöÄÖÜß-]+","[\w\s\düäöÄÖÜß-]+"\]/'; ) to get all addresse (with Umlauts as well), but it does not work : i get no addresses with Umlauts (äöü letters)

On my local machine(with german localization) it works fine.

may php.ini solve this problem?

Thanx in advance
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Use UTF-8 converters to use umlauts.
 
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1. Make sure you are saving the php script as UTF-8

2. With the current settings, PHP escapes quotes in form data. You have to use stripslashes() to remove the backslashes.

HTML: 
<?php

$addressPattern = '/addressLines:\["[\w\s\düäöÄÖÜß-]+","[\w\s\düäöÄÖÜß-]+"\]/' ;
$testString = 'addressLines:["düäöÄÖÜß","düäöÄÖÜß"]' ; 
$hard_coded_result =  preg_match(  $addressPattern  ,    $testString   ) ;
$form_input_result = "\$_POST[ 'address' ] not set" ;
if( isset( $_POST[ 'address' ]  ) ){
  $form_input_result =   preg_match(  $addressPattern  ,     stripslashes( $_POST[ 'address' ]  ) )   ;
}
?>



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
	<title>Testing</title>
</head>
<body>

<div>
<?php echo "Test string is <br /> $testString <br />" ; ?>
</div>

<div>
<?php echo "Hard  coded result is $hard_coded_result <br />" ; ?>
</div>

<div>
<?php echo "Form input result is $form_input_result <br />" ; ?>
</div>

<form action="" method="POST">
<input type="text" name="address" id="address" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

seems to work for me. 0 is no match. 1 is a match.
 
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