On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:13:05PM +0200, Marek Kilimajer wrote:
> And besides ereg_replace would not work becase it's greedy, .* would
> match "going", than "going" would not be found and the whole match would
> fail.
nope, it would backtrace then. but the first .* ist greedy so it would
match the last hello, not the first one if there is more than one
"hello" in the string.
> messju mohr wrote:
>
> >you mean
> >$newtext= ereg_replace(".*?(hello.*going).*","\\1",$text);
> >??
> >
> >i would suggest preg_replace in favour to ereg_replace:
> >$newtext= preg_replace("!.*?(hello.*going).*!","$1",$text);
> >
> >it is more powerfull, faster and widely available.
> >
> >greetings
> >messju
> >
> >
> >
> >>echo $newtext;
> >>?>
> >>...........
> >>
> >>Thank you.
> >>Tony Ritter
> >>
> >>
> >>
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