Re: ereg

On Friday 03 May 2002 12:51, Jason Soza wrote: > Hoping someone can help me here. I'm working with someone else's code and > I'm not familiar with ereg_replace(), can someone provide me an alternative > to the following? > > ereg_replace("[^a-z0-9._]", "", > ereg_replace (" ", "_", > ereg_replace("%20", "_", > strtolower($original_name)))); > > Basically, I want to enter $original_name and have it come out $new_name, > converting all spaces to underscores, upper to lowercase, and whatever that > first line does. :) > > I've read through the manual and what I got was that preg_replace() is > probably faster... Anyhow, I looked up preg_replace() and as a newbie to > PHP, the given examples look like a language all their own. What you're doing is not particularly complicated and can be done using str_replace(). -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? -- Allen Ginsberg */