RE: [PHP] ereg issues

2001-05-10 Thread Jerry Lake
: scott [gts] Cc: Php-General Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg issues print preg_replace('/^(.*?)([a-zA-Z]{2})(.*)/','\\2',$blah); try that -jack "scott [gts]" wrote: > > oh yeah. sorry... > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

Re: [PHP] ereg issues

2001-05-10 Thread Jack Dempsey
; Dempsey > > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:15 PM > > To: ..s.c.o.t.t.. [gts] > > Cc: Php-General > > Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg issues > > > > > > isn't a \w a word character, meaning a-zA-Z_0-9 (in perl)? > > if so, that wouldn't match

RE: [PHP] ereg issues

2001-05-10 Thread scott [gts]
oh yeah. sorry... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack > Dempsey > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:15 PM > To: ..s.c.o.t.t.. [gts] > Cc: Php-General > Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg issues > > > isn't

Re: [PHP] ereg issues

2001-05-10 Thread Jack Dempsey
isn't a \w a word character, meaning a-zA-Z_0-9 (in perl)? if so, that wouldn't match the a-zA-z he originally intended... am i missing something? -jack "..s.c.o.t.t.. [gts]" wrote: > > print preg_replace('/(.*?)(\w{2})(.*)/', '\\2', $blah); > > works for: > > $blah = "*9 scott 777zxsdf"; > a

RE: [PHP] ereg issues

2001-05-10 Thread ..s.c.o.t.t.. [gts]
print preg_replace('/(.*?)(\w{2})(.*)/', '\\2', $blah); works for: $blah = "*9 scott 777zxsdf"; and $blah = "scott"; > -Original Message- > From: Jerry Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: [PHP] ereg issues > > I'm feeling a bit stupid today > how do I truncate a string to the >