preg_match with cyrillic text

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How to match Cyrillic characters with a regular expression

I have a simple php script which uses preg_match to compare a string against some cyrillic text inside a variable (e.g. $var = 'страница').

However when I input the cyrilic text into the variable it comes up as ???????? in my code.

$var1 = '/?????????????/';

I get the folowing warning when I run the script:

preg_match(): Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0

Can anyone suggest a solution? thanks very much.

I always recommend this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html — Álvaro González, Oct 04 '12 at 15:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 04 '12 at 15:13

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Change encoding of your scripts or all project source files on UTF for example in your IDE.

answered Oct 04 '12 at 15:13

Dmytro Zarezenko

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '12 at 15:09

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Use modifier for unicode

preg_match('/abcdef/u',$some_string)

Maybe it’s because of invalid codepage, which codepage has your interpreter and which codepage uses connection to a database (if any?)

answered Oct 04 '12 at 15:09

tijagi

That `u` stands for `UTF-8`, not Unicode. We don't really know what encoding the OP is using. – Álvaro González Oct 04 '12 at 15:13

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