Re: [PHP4BETA] perl compatible regex search&replace behaving oddly... bug?

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Alexander Fordyce wrote: > I realize that the parse error occurs because it's not finding > anything nice and executable the second time around. Sometimes it > produces an ugly binary-looking garbage value for the second variable > -- it's a bit unpredictable. No, the parse error occurs because you used $ in a string without escaping it with \. > It seems like it should work, as that's the way it's presented in the > documentation. However, the example from the manual which is > supposed to upper-case html tags produces similar garbage when I copy > and paste the code: > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > $html_body = "<P>just some <strong>nice</strong> > <b>simple</b> text</P>"; > print preg_replace("/(<\/?)(\w+)([^>]*>)/e", > "'\\1'.strtoupper('\\2').'\\3'", $html_body); > - - output: - - > <P>just some rONG>NIcniceb> TEXT</ simple textó(; > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hmm, I just ran the exact same code here and it works fine. Perhaps you could try again? -Andrei * It said 'Winmodem' on the box, but I still feel like I lost. *