Re: regular expression help

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 08:46, Ed Lazor wrote: > <complain> > Today I discovered that my ISP can't upgrade to PHP 5. They use Plesk for > server Administration and PHP 5 apparently breaks Plesk. Plesk says > they'll make PHP 5 support available as soon as it starts coming default on > RedHat Enterprise. > </complain> > > Unfortunately, I now have a bunch of scripts that require PHP 5. I'd > upgraded my beta server for testing and everything has been going so great > that I went gungho. Honestly, I tried to not too many of the new features, > just so I could ease into it and do more testing. I'm finding little > differences that I didn't even realize I was taking advantage of. For > example, there are a lot of places in the code where I've done something > like this: > > print "Learn more about {$product->get_Title()}.<br>"; http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php $pattern = "/\{\$(.+?)\}/i"; $replacement = "\"\.\$$1\.\""; Try this out ;-) I haven't tested it but it's the right direction ;-) > > I uploaded scripts like this to the production server for more testing and > PHP4 flagged all of the code like this as parse errors. I'm not sure, but > now I'm stuck having to go through all of the code to change the coding > style.... my editor (Dreamweaver MX 2004) allows me to do a global search > and replace using regular expressions. I have no idea what regular > expression I'd use for something like this. Any recommendations? > > Thanks, > > Ed -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Orbitel - the New Generation Telecom! See www.orbitel.bg.