Re: preg_replace
| From: | CC Zona | Date: | Sat, 06 Oct 2001 18:11:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: preg_replace | ||
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In article <20011005181616.2891.qmail@pb1.pair.com>,
thunderman@younglab.de (W. Kiecksee) wrote:
> I just want to replace a string with another, but I have problems, when the
> string contains a [ or something similar. I just need a method to replace
> "[cool]" with "text". When I use:
> $mustbereplaced = "[cool]";
> $message = preg_replace("/$mustbereplaced/", "hello", $message);
The square bracket is a regex special character. It must be escaped.
<http://php.net/preg-quote>
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