note 18877 added to function.ereg-replace

ereg_replace can't do minimal matching (+? and *?). Example: $txt = 'a=b=c'; $a = ereg_replace('.+(=.+)', 'x\1', $txt); $b = preg_replace('/.+?(=.+)/', 'x$1', $txt); print "$a, $b"; the result is: x=c, x=b=c because of the more powerful perl compatible regexp-syntax you should always prefer preg_replace (and preg_match). -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ereg-replace.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+18877 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+18877 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+18877