RE: [PHP] Advanced RegExp

Ok.... so this can also be used to count occurences of a string... right ? ok... but why is 9 the limit.... --- Matthias Endler <endler@upsys.de> wrote: > Hi Mukul, > > I was wondering what > > > > \\1 ... \\2 meant in ereg... > > > > and how to occurenece in a string... > > I'll just give you an example and I think you'll > understand. > > <? > $test = "Mukul 123"; > $test = eregi_replace("^([a-z]+) ([0-9])$","Hello > \\1 this is number > \\2<br>\n", $test); > // ^ \\1 ^ ^ \\2 ^ > print $test; > ?> > > So \\1 contains the first part of the result which > is surrounded by (), \\2 > the second and so on... you just count the opening > paranthesis from left to > right. There's one limitation though you have with > ereg_*-functions you can > only count till nine. > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers, > Matthias > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ===== To Find Out More About Me : http://mukul.tsx.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/