Title: Help with incorrectly-written code
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Help with incorrectly-written code

 *  [dfwgreg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfwgreg/)
 * (@dfwgreg)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-incorrectly-written-code/)
 * Hello,
    I have no coding skills and I found a piece of code I was looking for.
   Only problem is that it is not written correctly. I just need someone to correct
   this one line as the code does work when this line is removed.
 * The code in question:
    `$output = preg_match_all("/caption=['"](.*)/", $content,
   $matches);`
 * The error message when executed:
    `Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ']'`
 * Thanks for all the help,
    Gregory S.

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-incorrectly-written-code/#post-2450561)
 * I think what you need is a slash before the double-quote preceding the closing
   bracket, like this:
 *     ```
       $output = preg_match_all("/caption=['\"](.*)/", $content, $matches);
       ```
   

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