Re: replace question.

Jason Granum wrote: > > I'm trying to do an ereg_replace however I only want to replace the 1st > match in the text, not every match. I've scoured through the manual but > can't figure anything out. Basicly I'm looking for the equivilent to > Perls s/find/replace/; not s/find/replace/g; -- Thanks for any help Off the top of my head . . . how about preg_replace("@^(.*?)($regex)(.*)$@", "\1$replace\2", $string); Add qualifies as needed. You can use ereg for this but the problem is I don't think it has the non-greedy option so I think it would replace the last rather than the first occurrence. Ciao, Andreas Pour http://www.kde.com/ : Everything KDE http://apps.kde.com/: The Latest in KDE Applications