Re: ereg() can't recognize characters such as èéêë...

Use preg_*() functions then? Not that I think they would be much better but... -- // DvDmanDT MSN: dvdmandt@hotmail.com Mail: dvdmandt@telia.com "Ivo Fokkema" <I.F.A.C.Fokkema@LUMC.nl> skrev i meddelandet news:20030729130146.72616.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi list, > > I read through the manual and tried to find something on google, but I > didn't come to anything useful. > > It seems that the ereg()-family (I tried ereg(), eregi() and ereg_replace()) > can't recognize any special characters such as èéêë etc. I tested this : > > <?php > print > (ereg("[[:alnum:][:alpha:][:blank:][:cntrl:][:digit:][:graph:][:lower:][:pri > nt:][:punct:][:space:][:upper:][:xdigit:]]","é")); > ?> > > and it returned a blank screen. When I fill in a regular character such as > 'e' or a slash or whatever, it returns 1. I ran into this when I tested a > script which should replace '{PMID[PubMed ID number]:[First author's name]} > into a link to the article online. For instance, "{PMID12632325:Flanigan}" > results in "<A > href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubM > ed&amp;dopt=Abstract&amp;list_uids=12632325" target="_blank">Flanigan</A>". > > This worked all fine, until an author's name was Müller. Then my > ereg_replace() failed (below). Any ideas? > > <?php > $val = ereg_replace("{PMID([[:alnum:]. _-]*):([[:alnum:]. _-]*)}", "<A > href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=Pub > Med&amp;dopt=Abstract&amp;list_uids=\\1\" > target=\"_blank\">\\2</A>","{PMID11519736:Müller}"); > print ($val); > ?> > > TIA! > > -- > [Win2000 | Apache/1.3.23] > [PHP/4.2.3 | MySQL/3.23.53] > > Ivo Fokkema > PHP & MySQL programmer > Leiden University Medical Centre > Netherlands > >