Re: (another) regex difficulty

* Thus wrote jonas_weber @ gmx. ch (jonas_weber@gmx.ch): > regular expressions > the example below should turn any character exept "\*" (*= any char) > into an "x": > > $term = preg_replace('/[^(\\\)+(.){1}]/', 'x', $term); preg_replace('/(?<!\\).{1}/', 'x', $term); this is untested but using the assertion (?<!\\), meaning that the string '\' doesn't appear before the character, should be the direction to go. see: http://php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.syntax.php Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."