Re: replace question.

Andreas Pour wrote: > > 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", $string); ^3 oops: preg_replace("@^(.*?)($regex)(.*)$@", "\\1$replace\\3", $string);