Re: Regex help needed...
| From: | Christian Reiniger | Date: | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:30:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regex help needed... | ||
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On Monday 12 February 2001 21:08, Jesse Swensen wrote:
> >> This should be a quick one, but I can't seem to wrap my brain around
> >> it. All I need to do is replace leading or trailing spaces with
> >> underscores. If there is spaces in between words, leave them alone.
> but I wanted to convert each space to a "_", then what? I tried:
>
> $fix = ereg_replace("(^ +)|( +$)", "_", $checkme);
>
> and
>
> $fix = ereg_replace("(^[ ]+)|([ ]+$)", "_", $checkme);
preg_match ('/^(\s*)(.*?)(\s*)$/', $checkme, $matches);
$NewString = str_repeat ('_', strlen ($matches [1])).
$matches [2] .
str_repeat ('_', strlen ($matches [3]));
not tested, but should work fine.
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Christian Reiniger
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