Re: Regex not working with ":"

Richard Quadling wrote:

2009/4/22 kyle.smith <kyle.smith@inforonics.com>:

Have you tried escaping the : with a \? Like: mb_ereg_replace('^(.*)this is the test\: replace(.*)$', '', $contents ,'UTF-8'); Also, have you tried removing the : and adjusting the input string to verify your belief that it's the :? HTH, Kyle -----Original Message----- From: Merlin Morgenstern [mailto:merlin_x@fastmail.fm] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:09 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Regex not working with ":" Hi there, I am trying to remove a text which does contain a : inside. Somehow the regex does not match, no matter what I do: $contents = mb_ereg_replace('^(.*)this is the test: replace(.*)$', '', $contents ,'UTF-8'); Looks like this is a result of the :. Does anybody have an idea how to do this? Thank you for any help. Merlin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Can you try .. # Your regular expression could not be converted to the flavor required by this language: # A POSIX Extended RE cannot match the start and the end of a line with ^ and $ # A POSIX Extended RE cannot match the start and the end of a line with ^ and $ # Because of this, the code snippet below will not work as you intended, if at all. $contents = mb_ereg_replace('^(.*)this is the test: replace(.*)$', '\1\2', $contents, 'UTF-8'); The warnings above come from RegexBuddy. Considering the PHP examples, I'm not sure how accurate they are. Hi there,

thank you for the help. Actually it was due to case sensitivity. Use str_ireplace to fix it. Regards, Merlin