Re: ereg_replace help

On Monday 17 November 2003 23:37, Martin Towell <martin.towell@world.net> sent a missive stating: > Hi All, > > I have an array of strings in the following format: > "abcd - rst" > "abcd - uvw" > "abcd - xyz" > "foobar - rst" > "blah - rst" > "googol - uvw" > > What I want to do is strip everything from the " - " bit of the string to > the end, _but_ only for the strings that don't start with "abcd" > > I was thinking something like the following: > echo ereg_replace("(!abcd) - xyz", "\\1", $str)."\n"; > but obviously this doesn't work, otherwise I wouldn't be emailing the > list... > > Can anyone help? I need to use ereg_replace() because it's part of our code > library and therefore can't change :( > > TIA > Martin Possibly have to do a if statement, ereg for the abcd and then if ture, do your ereg replace? I can't logically think how that would work in one regex, since you want to match first and then replace...but my regex skills aren't top notch either :) Henrik -- Henrik Hudson listsNO@SPAMrhavenn.net "`If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'" --Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy