RE: [PHP] EREG_REPLACE different from 4.04 to 4.06

IIRC, The question mark after the greedy operator (*) controls its greediness. For Perl REGEX I know this is true. For EREG I am not sure, but that would fit. So the question mark after the greedy operator (*) does not have the same meaning it usually does. If you want the question mark put it in a character class []. This way you are sure you get only the characters you want , and the only character is your question mark. Then "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa?site=" Would match be matched by the regex ".*[?]site=". I don't know of any changes in the versions you mention, however if the ? is able to control greediness in EREG you must watch out for that. Thanks Jeremy Allen -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Starkmann [mailto:kiko@nfq.de] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 9:47 AM To: 'php-general@lists.php.net' Subject: RE: [PHP] EREG_REPLACE different from 4.04 to 4.06 Well... > >From: Christoph Starkmann <kiko@nfq.de> > > > ereg_replace(".*?site=", "", $path); > > > >Depends on what you want to find, but as far as I see > >your expression doesn't make too much sense when you > >DON'T excape the "?". > > > >In the above case, it would search for > > > >.* any number (0 to ...) of characters > >? one or none character > >site= > > Yes, I think you are right. So why doesn't it match something like > /aaaaaa?site=x in 4.06? I thought regexp should find the > longest match which > would include would be /aaaaaa?site= > Just a comment :) I see... I think now YOU are right. .*?site should match any string that contains site= because .* can be any (or no) char and ? can be zero or any (one) char. And YES, IMHO /aaaaa?site=x should be matched. Anybody knows what's going on here? Cheers, Kiko ----- It's not a bug, it's a feature. christoph starkmann mailto:kiko@nfq.de http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~kiko ICQ: 100601600 ----- -- 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com