Re: regexp problem

Ok so you could have done str_replace(' foo ',' the ',$string); It is the same thing then and it's still faster. --Joe On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:48:44PM +0000, Chris Jones wrote: > Hi > > In article <20001216175823.B21270@zorka.com>, "Joe Stump" > <joe@earth.care2.com> wrote: > > > it's quite a bit faster and just the same thing. > > It's not "just the same thing", the regexp "\Wfoo\W" only replaces > "foo" > where it's a whole word, str_replace(); would replace "foobar", which I > don't want. > Thanks for the suggestion anyway - fortunately I managed to fix the > problem, I think I must have had a typo or something. > > -- > _____ _ _ _____ > | __ | |___ ___| |_ ___| __|_ _ ___ 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