Re: Perl-compatible Regular Expression functions

ereg_replace seems to have the same problem. ben. Benjamin Berman wrote: > Has anyone out there tried to use the "preg_" functions on strings that > contain binary data? I basically have files that have a combination of > binary and text data, and I want to do search and replace on the text > part. Here's the way I've tried it in PHP: > > (1) Read a file into a string with fread > (2) Do a search and replace on the string with "preg_replace" > (3) Write the string back to a file with fwrite > > The fread and fwrite parts work fine with binary data. But the > "preg_replace" seems to mangle it (the string gets truncated). I know > that SED & Perl search and replace work fine with binary data like > this. Any ideas how to do it with PHP? > > Thanks, > Ben Berman > benbfly@yahoo.com