# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2006-10-09 09:46:01 +0200:
> Is it possible to have a user defined function for the replacement  
> within an ereg_replace (like preg_replace_callback)? I am working on  
> a script that converts html pages with metric data into imperial  
> data. My script takes text strings containing one or more instances  
> of e.g. "123 mm", "321 mm", "123 kg", "123 cm2" and so on. The script  
> searches the string with a pattern like:
> "([[:digit:]]+|[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+)([[:blank:]]?)(mm)"

    your pattern is valid PCRE AFAICS. why don't you just use
    preg_replace_callback? it's faster, more capable...

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