On 6/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> $string="I have xxxxxxxx apples!";
> $string=preg_replace("/x+/sim","x", $string);
> print "$string";
>
> hope it helps..
>
> > Now, I know that this is easy, but I am embarassed to say that I can't
> > find a regex tutorial that will show me how to match any occurances of
> > x and replace them with one x:
> >
> > xxxxx >x
> > xx > x
> > x > x
> >
> > $string="I have xxxxxxxx apples!";
> > $string=preg_replace("-regex here-","x", $string);
> > print "$string";
> >
> > I have x apples!
> >
> > I searched marc because I know that I've seen this, but I don't know
> > on what keywords to search. I know that php uses perl-compatable
> > regular expressions, but in no tutorial did I find this. I know that *
> > matches any amount of occurances of a string, but formulating it to do
> > it in the middle of a string of text I could not get.
> >
> > Dotan
> > http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/19/adams_bryan.php
> > Bryan Adams Lyrics
> >
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Thanks, that did it. I did not know about the +. And what is the 'sim'
doing? I can't find any information on that.
Dotan
http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/64/beatles.php
Beatles Lyrics
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