Re: regexp for ' replacement

In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204051147590.14942-100000@aluminum.cs.pitt.edu>, thalis@cs.pitt.edu (Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos) wrote: > If I have as part of a text: > ...and then 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's piano'... > > How can I substitute the single quote in "dog's" with say \' > I want to aply a substitution for only the single quote that is between two > single quotes and leave the rest of the text in between the same. Does this work for you? $str="...and then 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's piano'..."; echo $str=preg_replace("/'(.*)'(.*)'/U","'$1\'$2'",$str); -- CC