Re: Regular expressions

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 18:30, jem777 wrote: > Php docs are quite messy about what works with what function... > This is my problem; I want to strip out spaces from my tags: > > $word = "[ / quote ]"; > $word = eregi_replace("[[[:blank:]]*quote[[:blank:]]*]", "[quote]", > $word); $word = > eregi_replace("[[[:blank:]]*\/[[:blank:]]*quote[[:blank:]]*]", > "[/quote]", $word); > > I would expect the result to be: [/quote] but it is [ /[quote]. > It seems the first replace actually do the replace, but the how does it > match the slash "/" ??? preg_replace('|\[\s*/\s*quote\s*]|', '[/quote]', $word); You might want to spice it up with some ungreedy modifiers. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts