On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:48:36PM -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:11:55PM +, Curt Zirzow wrote:
> > >
> > > $text="one ", "",$text);
> >
> > Because your missing a -
> > $text="one two\n";
>
> /me applies mallet to head
>
> % php -r '$text="one two\n"; print
>
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:11:55PM +, Curt Zirzow wrote:
> >
> > $text="one ", "",$text);
>
> Because your missing a -
> $text="one two\n";
/me applies mallet to head
% php -r '$text="one two\n"; print
ereg_replace("", "",$text);'
one two
whee, it works! :)
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Paul Chvostek
Justin French wrote:
$text = preg_replace('//su','',$text);
Did not work (was too greedy, matched multiple comments)
Just for the record, it should be a capital 'U' for ungreedy. Lowercase
'u' is something else. :)
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---John Holmes...
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Thanks to everyone who's replied... appears to be quite a tricky one!!
$text = preg_replace('//su','',$text);
Did not work (was too greedy, matched multiple comments)
$text = preg_replace('//','',$text);
Did not work (needed multiple lines)
$text = preg_replace('//su','',$text);
Michael, et al --
...and then Michael Sims said...
%
% David T-G wrote:
% >
% > Am I missing something painfully obvious?
%
% www.perldoc.com appears to be unavailable at the moment, but if you have "perldoc"
% installed, here's an excerpt from the "perlre" man page:
I do, but I looked in the p
Petr, et al --
...and then Petr U. said...
%
% On Thu, 6 May 2004 11:57:45 -0400
% David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
%
% > Am I missing something painfully obvious?
%
% >From http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.syntax.php
%
% However, if a quantifier is followed by a question mark,
* Thus wrote Paul Chvostek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:26:34AM -0400, Rob Ellis wrote:
> > >
> > > $text = ereg_replace("","",$text);
> >
> > you can make the .* less greedy...
> >
> > $text = preg_replace('//', '', $text);
>
> Interestingly, from a shell:
>
> $
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 12:47:10PM -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:26:34AM -0400, Rob Ellis wrote:
> > >
> > > $text = ereg_replace("","",$text);
> >
> > you can make the .* less greedy...
> >
> > $text = preg_replace('//', '', $text);
>
> Interesting to know.
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:26:34AM -0400, Rob Ellis wrote:
> >
> > $text = ereg_replace("","",$text);
>
> you can make the .* less greedy...
>
> $text = preg_replace('//', '', $text);
Interesting to know. My preg-foo is limited; I came at PHP from a
background of awk and sed, so when I
On Thu, 6 May 2004 11:57:45 -0400
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Am I missing something painfully obvious?
>From http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.syntax.php
However, if a quantifier is followed by a question mark, then it ceases to be
greedy, and instead matches the minimu
David T-G wrote:
> % you can make the .* less greedy...
> %
> % $text = preg_replace('//', '', $text);
>
> How does that make it ungreedy? The only thing I see relating
> question marks and greediness is that a question mark makes part of a
> regexp with a /U modifier (otherwise not greedy) back
Rob, et al --
...and then Rob Ellis said...
%
...
% you can make the .* less greedy...
%
% $text = preg_replace('//', '', $text);
How does that make it ungreedy? The only thing I see relating question
marks and greediness is that a question mark makes part of a regexp with
a /U modifier (oth
From: "Rob Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> you can make the .* less greedy...
>
> $text = preg_replace('//', '', $text);
You still need an 's' modifier if you want to match multi-line comments. The
dot character won't match newlines unless you use an 's' modifier.
---John Holmes...
--
PHP Genera
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:10:17AM -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 03:02:16PM +1000, Justin French wrote:
> >
> > This isn't working:
> > $text = preg_replace('//','',$text);
> >
> > Can someone advise what characters I need to escape, or whatever to get
> > it going?
>
>
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 03:02:16PM +1000, Justin French wrote:
>
> This isn't working:
> $text = preg_replace('//','',$text);
>
> Can someone advise what characters I need to escape, or whatever to get
> it going?
It's not a matter of escaping. You're matching too much with the ".*".
If you'r
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