Re: Silly regex giveing me a hard time

Dotan Cohen wrote:

I have a list like this: 235 Some info

     12323 other 5 things

No number on this line! 43 something or other I need to remove the first number from each line, so that I will get this: Some info other 5 things No number on this line! something or other So I tried: $data=preg_replace("//n[ ]*[0-9][ ]*/", "", $data); That is (I think): any amount of spaces, followed by any number, followed by any amount of spaces. This doesn't seem to be the way to do it. Anybody have a better idea? Thanks. Dotan http://technology-sleuth.com

Try preg_replace("/^[ ]*[0-9]+[ ]*/", "", $data); It means: from the beginning of $data looks for space (if any), then almost one number followed by space (if any). If you don't use ^ you may remove the number 5 'from other 5 things' Darvin