Check if two parts of a string are the same with regex (PHP)?

Question

Hi guys, using a regular expression in PHP with preg_replace_callback how can I check if two parts of the pattern are the same?

preg_replace_callback('/Blah: (.*?), BLah Blah (.+?), (**String Here Must Be Same as First Match**)/s', create_function(), $subject);

Thanks, Matt

Answer 1

You can use a backreference:

/Blah: (.*?), BLah Blah (.+?), \1/s

\1 here denotes the first matched group.