potential preg_replace bug; unsure however

I built a Perl-style regex to match function calls in C-like languages where $name is the functions name. The functions are assumed to accept a single string as parameter. Here it is. /$name\s*\(\s*\"(.*)\"\s*\)\s*;/s The expression is successfully preg_match'ed on a stream of code, but when preg_replace is passed the same expression it does not return. The piece of code I tested this with was fairly small so that an increased demand of computation time is unlikely be the reason for this behaviour. Substituting the subexpression (.*) by ([^\"]*) remedies this. The version of the PHP install is 4.05. Any ideas? D. Alvarez Arribas <alvarez@st-oneline.net>