Programmer - preg_match two variables with metacharacters

Programmer Question

I have two string variables which are both file paths. The code that worked used ereg which is deprecated, so I'm trying to rewrite it using preg_match:

Old code that worked:

$path1 = quotemeta($path);
ereg("$path1(.*)$", $path2, $matches);

Using preg_match which doesn't seem to work:

$path1 = quotemeta($path);
preg_match("/$path1(.*)$/", $path2, $matches);

It gives preg_match(): Unknown modifier 'V' error.

Also, the main thing I'm trying to obtain is $matches[1], which is the text that matched the first captured parenthesized subpattern, so I'm thinking I can't really use substr().

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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