php regex [b] to <b>

Question

  "'[b](.*?)[/b]'is",

Is my current RegEx working. But I want to change the [] to be <> instead. But it doesn't work... What more then just the [] do I need to change.

Answer 1

Try ~ as a delimiter instead

preg_match("~<b>(.*?)</b>~is", $text, $b);