Re: preg_match_all but no preg_replace_all?
| From: | Matthew Weier O'Phinney | Date: | Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:53:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: preg_match_all but no preg_replace_all? | ||
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* Marten Lehmann <lehmann@cnm.de>:
> I want to be sure, that preg_replace replaces all matches. But it
> doesn't accept the /g modifier. And anyhow, there's no preg_replace_all
> like there is an preg_match_all. Will preg_replace replace everything by
> default?
Yes. preg_replace is greedy by default.
If you *don't* want it to replace everything, you need to pass a fourth
argument, which tells it the number of replacements to make. See the
docs for preg_replace for more details.
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