Re: Re: hello and a question

yay. this preg business methinks needs some more looking into. ;) everywhere I've looked theres always one or 2 people proselytizing its greatness. my late-night "boredom" reading of O'Reilly's _Perl_ (sans computer or pause) left little behind little information in my head, not surprisingly. Thanks much, sir. --kevin On 21 Aug 2001 jimw@apache.org wrote: > Kevin Keeler <insanity@uwns.underworld.net> wrote: > > $entry_hidden = > > eregi_replace("<hide>.+</hide>","<hidden>",$entry); > > try: $entry_hidden = > preg_replace("|<hide>.+?</hide>|i","<hidden>",$entry); > > ".+" is 'greedy', meaning it consumes as much as text as it can. with > perl-like regular expressions, you can add a trailing "?" which makes > the + and * operators non-greedy. > > jim > > -- > 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 >