Re: Really simple regex

* Rory Browne <rory.browne@gmail.com> : > preg_replace("/x+/", "x", $string); should do it. Having that said, > regex generally comes back and bites me in the ass, so........... That one won't -- that's spot on. > On 6/8/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote: > > Now, I know that this is easy, but I am embarassed to say that I can't > > find a regex tutorial that will show me how to match any occurances of > > x and replace them with one x: > > > > xxxxx > x > > xx > x > > x > x > > > > $string="I have xxxxxxxx apples!"; > > $string=preg_replace("-regex here-","x", $string); > > print "$string"; > > > > I have x apples! > > > > I searched marc because I know that I've seen this, but I don't know > > on what keywords to search. I know that php uses perl-compatable > > regular expressions, but in no tutorial did I find this. I know that * > > matches any amount of occurances of a string, but formulating it to do > > it in the middle of a string of text I could not get. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney | WEBSITES: Webmaster and IT Specialist | http://www.garden.org National Gardening Association | http://www.kidsgardening.com 802-863-5251 x156 | http://nationalgardenmonth.org mailto:matthew@garden.org | http://vermontbotanical.org