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

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 08:15:03AM -0500, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > Yes, by non-greedy I meant preg_replace() that doesn't process all the > instances of regexp matches it finds - only some of them. Yes, so then you can do something like?: shell: $ echo sdasdasdasd2|perl -pe "s/a{1}//;" php: $data=preg_replace("/a{1}/","","dsasdasdasd2"); (um, that works already.. why didn't i test it..:) but, i think that's still too complicated way to replace just the first match. so i think you could think of making some modifier to preg_replace() like /f or something.. only first match is replaced, when you don't break the old behaviour and get that to be more easier. but something like str_freplace() could be nice also. but this is just my opinion. you do what you see is best solution:) -- ----------------------------------------- bestis bestis@iname.com Jani Ollikainen http://come.to/bestis -----------------------------------------