Re: (another) regex difficulty

Jonas_weber @ Gmx . Ch wrote: > regular expressions > the example below should turn any character exept "\*" (*= any char) > into an "x": > > $term = preg_replace('/[^(\\\)+(.){1}]/', 'x', $term); > > but i guess because of the [brackets] the "." (period) is treated as > character "." instead as metacharacter (that matches any char). I'm new to regex too, but if you want to match anything that's not an *, couldn't it be done like this? $term = preg_replace('/[^\*\s]*/', 'x', $term); I put the \s there to skip the whitespace characters too. I haven't tested, but I hope it helps. Cristian