Re: New to php3 - pattern matching?
| From: | Jeff Gannaway | Date: | Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:46:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: New to php3 - pattern matching? | ||
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At 03:32 AM 7/21/00 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote:
>> have just installed php3 and mysql etc ... have used perl before
>>
>> if I have $item which has a "/" in it and I want to remove it - perl
>> would be something like $item =~ s/\///;
>
>$item = preg_replace("/\//", "", $item);
>
>-Sterling
Now I would have said:
str_replace ("/", "", "$item");
Can anyone explain the benefit of using preg_replace over str_replace? The
examples I see on this list always look so dang obfuscated :)
Later,
Jeff Gannaway