Re: regexp problem

If all you want to do is replace a word with another use str_replace() - it's quite a bit faster and just the same thing. $new_string = str_replace('the','foo',$old_string); --Joe On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:56:55AM +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > Hi > > I'm working on simple regexp that works fine with sed, but doesn't seem > to work with PHP 4.0.3pl1. > > For example, I want to replace all occurances of the word "the" with > "foo", so I use: > > cat file.txt | sed -e "s/\Wthe\W/ foo /g" > > and it works. Translating this into php would be: > > print (egrep_replace ("\Wthe\W", " foo ", $text)); > > but this just produces the original $text with nothing changed. What am I > doing wrong? > > Many thanks, > -- > _____ _ _ _____ > | __ | |___ ___| |_ ___| __|_ _ ___ Chris "Ng" Jones > | __ -| | .'| _| '_|___|__ | | | | chris@black-sun.co.uk > |_____|_|__,|___|_,_| |_____|___|_|_| www.black-sun.co.uk > S o f t w a r e > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net --- Joe Stump PHP Programmer www.Care2.com