Re: replace question.

Thanks :) Thats what I was lookin for :) On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Andreas Pour wrote: > 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); > >