note 9189 added to split

In geneneral, the code: $var1 = ereg_replace("b[^e]+e","#","abcdefgabcdefg"); is more efficiant in anyway than a .+ expression. (If I recall correctly, this is because .+e has to read backwards to evaluate every character. i.e. for abcdef, it has to read b to know if a is matches.. do this on a 1000 word document, and you can already start to see the impact. The code [^e] simply sees if the character is e or not.) http://www.php.net/manual/function.split.php