Re: preg_replace problem

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, The Captain wrote: > I have a regular expression that's not giving me the results i really need. > > I have a bunch of strings coming at me that need to be truncated if they're > over 15 characters... but not to truncate until after it reaches the first > word. > > This regular expression just doesn't seem to want to work 100%: > > $myString = preg_replace("/.{15}\w)?\s.*/","\\1",$myString); > > > This will turn: > > 'PROJECT - Marketing Pitch' > > into > > 'PROJECT - Marketing\1' > > > However... when i change it to: /(.{15}\w)+.*/ > everything seems to work fine. > I can't really use this regex though, because it will keep matching that 15 > character word until it reaches the end. I need it to stop matching after > it finds the first match (if it needs to match at all). > > In perl: > + <- means match 1 or many times > * <- means match 0 or many times > ? <- means match 0 or 1 time > > Could someone help me see my error... i'm driving myself bananas trying to > find it. Perhaps pcre in PHP doesn't support the ? in the regular > expressions. > > Best Regards, > Rob > Try "/^(.{15}\w)+.*/". -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>