RE: [PHP] eregi_replace help needed
| From: | craig | Date: | Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:03:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] eregi_replace help needed | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: php4@nv.jakaranda.co.za [mailto:php4@nv.jakaranda.co.za]
> Sent: January 29, 2004 8:53 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] eregi_replace help needed
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to locate patterns such as
>
> 12345678
> 1 23 45 67 89
> 1 2 34 567 890
>
> and replace the pattern string with a new string.
>
> I tried
>
> $filter['message'] = eregi_replace("[0-9\s]{4,}",'<string
> replaced>', $filter['message']);
>
> but it does not work on all the above examples.
>
> Thanks for the assistance!
>
> Nico
>
off the top of my head, I don't think '\s' is valid in a character
class, so just use ' ' instead
try eregi_replace("[0-9 ]{4,}"
-Craig