Re: still not friends with RegExps..

Hello, while I was reading the post from 'elias', a fairly old question came in my mind which I've not get any answer yet. Maybe you can do it. There is a function quotemeta() which escapes all special regexp character such as: . \ + * ? [ ^ ] ( $ ) with a '\' except one the '|' pipe. what reason for this behaviour? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taylor, Stewart" <Stewart.Taylor@uk.thalesgroup.com> To: "'elias'" <elias_bachaalany@yahoo.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: 2001. május 15. 15:16 Subject: RE: [PHP] still not friends with RegExps.. > preg_replace does not seem to agree with '\\'. > Below seems to work with ereg_replace. > > <?php > $pat = "[*+;\\-]"; > $rep = " "; > echo ereg_replace($pat,$rep,$string); > ?> > > -Stewart > ~ > > -----Original Message----- > From: elias [mailto:elias_bachaalany@yahoo.com] > Sent: 15 May 2001 23:37 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] still not friends with RegExps.. > > > Hello, > > Maybe RegExps are still my point of weakness...but I still like them as much > as I like the Self-Reference phrases... > > Okay now, how can i replace all the matches of "\" , "*", "+", > "-" and ";" > with an empty string by calling once the preg_replace() or str_replace() or > any string replace function? ("") > > Do i have to call it as many times as i got different replacments? > > -elias > > > > > -- > 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 > > -- > 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 >