preg_match_all function

[likelylad]

What is wrong with the following line of code

$findmatch=preg_match_all("/a/",$contents);

I am trying to find if the letter a exists in the variable $contents.

I will then use the subsequent array to count how many times it counted

 

[sleipnir214]

First of all, you're not providing preg_match_all() with the correct number of input parameters. Take a look at the online manual page:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match-all.php

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[likelylad]

OK, don't really understand the notes.

What I would like to do is search a string that may contain one of a pre-specified group of characters.

eg in a string I may want to find a or b or c

 

[likelylad]

I have gotten the following to work for me

eregi("[À-ÖØ-öø-ÿ]",$splitfile,$reg)

but how do I count all characters in that range????