Re: Re: Silly regex giveing me a hard time

On 10/16/05, Darvin <phpit@andrioli.com> wrote: > 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 > Thanks all for the help on this one! Darvin's pointing out about the ^ was great- I couldn't quite figure that one out. You guys are the greatest. Dotan http://technology-sleuth.com/internet/index.php