Re: Regular Expression Problem
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Tue, 02 Jul 2002 17:50:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expression Problem | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:40, Martin Clifford wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> I'm trying to get this darn eregi_replace() to work, but it doesn't produce
> any results at all.
>
> I want it to find all occurances of PHP variables. Here is the regexp
>
> $output = eregi_replace("^[\$]{1,2}[a-zA-Z][0-9]+$",
> "<b>\\1</b>", $var);
>
> As you might guess this is for a syntax highlighting function I am trying
> to write. Anyone have any ideas why it's not working? Please copy me
> directly, as I'm on the digest. Thanks!
Your regex looks suspiciously like a PCRE!
Try changing eregi_replace to preg_replace.
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