php and replace vs. perl $data=~ s/<BR>\n//;

I've been wondering is there a replace function which does not replace all matches? If there is, some one could point me out which is it. If not, i think there should be one. Even preg_replace knows only /e modifier, no /g like in perl. And first i tought that this is covered in todo: * have a non-greedy option for preg_replace(). but, then i heard that, that hasn't anything to do with that situation. I'm not so expert in regexp, but now i know what non-greedy means and what i wanted isn't it. ps. i'm not on the list so cc me. -- ----------------------------------------- bestis bestis@iname.com Jani Ollikainen http://come.to/bestis -----------------------------------------