Re: Help with regular expressions

Al wrote:

John Nichel wrote:

Carl Furst wrote:

Ok I am so stumped.. I'm doing something stupid and I can't figure it out.. Here's the code: <?php

$eml = 'hiddenemailadddress@hiddendomain.net                        ceo';
if (strpos($eml, ' ')) echo "yep, there are spaces\n"; //does strpos see the

spaces? echo preg_replace('/\s/', '', $eml); //WTF? Preg_replace does not? echo "$eml\n"; ?> As you can see there are a bunch of spaces in that email address. I'm trying to use preg_replace to get rid of them. Strpos sees the spaces and the first echo statement is executed. The second echo prints nothing and the third prints the original $eml with nothing substituted. Can anyone see why the perl reg isn't seeing the spaces? Carl

Working fine on my end (copy/pasted your code)

$eml= trim($eml);

$pattern= "%\s%";            //I use % as delimiters, more obvious for me when debugging

if(preg_match($pattern, $eml) echo "yep, there are spaces\n"; preg_replace($pattern, '', $eml); echo "works now\n";

Sorry, left off the new $eml $eml= preg_replace($pattern, '', $eml); echo "works now\n";