Re: Really simple regex

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$string="I have xxxxxxxx apples!"; $string=preg_replace("/x+/sim","x", $string); print "$string";

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Thanks, that did it. I did not know about the +. And what is the 'sim'

its not one thing but 3 things, everything that comes after a regexp closing marker (but inside the string) is treated as a regexp modifier, in this case the modifiers are: modifer - meaning ------------------------------------

s       - PCRE_DOTALL
i       - PCRE_CASELESS
m       - PCRE_MULTILINE

read more here: http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php ...

Thank you for that link! I have so much to learn (there is so much to learn).

well the guys that wrote the page deserve the credit!, and I know how you feel about the learning thing - everytime you think you have a reasonable understanding of something, another door opens and you realise you don't know 'jack'! :-) good luck