Re: eregreplace() and regular expressions...

On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Jerry Allen wrote: > > Greetings, > Regular Expressions = hmmm <scratching ones head...> > > I have a string that contains > "it is very important to leave all words larger than three characters" > > I want only the words that contain 4 or more characters. > Can I replace them with some type of statement like > $string = ereg_replace("[^.{1}$]", "", "$string"); // 1 char word > $string = ereg_replace("[^.{2}$]", "", "$string"); // 2 char word > $string = ereg_replace("[^.{3}$]", "", "$string"); // 3 char word > > Note the above returns an empty value. <scratching my head> Try this: $string = preg_replace('/\w{1,3}/', '', $string); -Andrei * If things appear to be going well, you have overlooked something. *