preg_match a String to get certain numbers out of the string

Question

I have a string that always has the following format `Text: 1.1111111 Text` What I need is `1.11` of the string So I went with this regex `^(\S*\s)(\d.\d{2})` I've used http://regex101.com/ to try it out and it works there, but when I do it on my own code, the matches array is always empty. This is the code ``` //$ratingString = Durchschnittsbewertung: 4.65000 von 5 Sternen 20 Bewertungen Location bewerten preg_match ( "/^(\S*\s)(\d.\d{2})/", $ratingString, $matches ); var_dump ( $matches ); // matches == array (0) {} ```

Accepted Answer

You need to escape the dot as dot is special character in regex which matches any character if not escaped:

```
^(\S*\s)(\d\.\d{2})
```

preg_match a String to get certain numbers out of the string

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