[PHP] Re: ereg() can't recognize characters... [SOLVED]

[Ivo Fokkema]

Well d*mn, why didn't I think of this... It seems to work now! Thanks!

I'm not such an expert on the Perl compatible regexp's so I rarely use
them... Yet another reason to start using them though...

Thanx!

"Dvdmandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Use preg_*() functions then? Not that I think they would be much better
> but...
>
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> "Ivo Fokkema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
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> > Hi list,
> >
> > I read through the manual and tried to find something on google, but I
> > didn't come to anything useful.
> >
> > It seems that the ereg()-family (I tried ereg(), eregi() and
> ereg_replace())
> > can't recognize any special characters such as èéêë etc. I tested this :
> >
> > <?php
> > print
> >
>
(ereg("[[:alnum:][:alpha:][:blank:][:cntrl:][:digit:][:graph:][:lower:][:pri
> > nt:][:punct:][:space:][:upper:][:xdigit:]]","é"));
> > ?>
> >
> > and it returned a blank screen. When I fill in a regular character such
as
> > 'e' or a slash or whatever, it returns 1. I ran into this when I tested
a
> > script which should replace '{PMID[PubMed ID number]:[First author's
> name]}
> > into a link to the article online. For instance,
"{PMID12632325:Flanigan}"
> > results in "<A
> >
>
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=PubM
> > ed&amp;dopt=Abstract&amp;list_uids=12632325"
> target="_blank">Flanigan</A>".
> >
> > This worked all fine, until an author's name was Müller. Then my
> > ereg_replace() failed (below). Any ideas?
> >
> > <?php
> > $val = ereg_replace("{PMID([[:alnum:]. _-]*):([[:alnum:]. _-]*)}", "<A
> >
>
href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&amp;db=Pub
> > Med&amp;dopt=Abstract&amp;list_uids=\\1\"
> > target=\"_blank\">\\2</A>","{PMID11519736:Müller}");
> > print ($val);
> > ?>
> >
> > TIA!
> >
> > --
> > [Win2000 | Apache/1.3.23]
> > [PHP/4.2.3 | MySQL/3.23.53]
> >
> > Ivo Fokkema
> > PHP & MySQL programmer
> > Leiden University Medical Centre
> > Netherlands
> >
> >
>
>



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