RE: [PHP] Newbie: special characters in regex?
| From: | Edward Kay | Date: | Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:43:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Newbie: special characters in regex? | ||
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>
> I'm trying to modify a string so that it can be used as a Distinguished
> Name in an LDAP operation. Distinguished Names must have special
> characters, such as (, ), / and \ escaped with a backslash. For
> instance, 'Kevin (Kev) Zembower, III" becomes 'Kevin \(Kev\) Zembower\,
> III'.
>
> I tried to do this in this statement:
> $entry['FirstName'] = preg_replace('/(\)|\(|\,|\/)/',`\\$1',
> $entry['FirstName'];
>
Two things I can see straight off that will give you a parse error:
1. You've used a back tick instead of a single quote before \\$1
2. There's no closing parenthesis to the preg_replace function.
Edward