Re: php and replace vs. perl $data=~ s/<BR>\n//;
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:15:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php and replace vs. perl $data=~ s/<BR>\n//; | ||
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jani Ollikainen wrote:
> 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.
Yes, by non-greedy I meant preg_replace() that doesn't process all the
instances of regexp matches it finds - only some of them.
-Andrei
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