Re: (another) regex difficulty

01.10.03 at 18:17 Curt Zirzow wrote:

preg_replace('/(?<!\\).{1}/', 'x', $term);

01.10.03 at 18:27 CPT John W. Holmes wrote:

$term = preg_replace('/[^\\]./','x',$term);

they don't work (thanks anyway) it's pretty simple: i need a regex that matches any character in a string except "\*" (* stands for any char that follows the "\"). example: "this is \ba test" should match: this a is test isn't there a way to do this? best wishes, jns