RE: [PHP] str_replace question

preg_replace('/*\[a-z]+)[0-9]+(\)/', '$1$2', $String); Ok why not simply use reg_replace('/ques[0-9][0-9]/', '/ques/', $String); BTW preg regex are more powerfull since they support some stuff that the posix standard does not support. As far as I know lookbehinds and lookbacks and stuff like

RE: [PHP] str_replace question

$String = ques99; preg_replace('/*\[a-z]+)[0-9]+(\)/', '$1$2', $String); will most likeley do. Btw, does anybody know why preg_replace is adviced over ereg_replace in the manual? .. and if ereg_replace doesn't have any advantages over preg_replace, couldn't this function get depricated? -

RE: [PHP] str_replace question

I think (and don't quote me on this, and feel free to correct me :) that preg_replace() is fast being based on perl regular expressions. ereg_replace() however, follows the POSIX standard for regular expression matching. Cheers, Rob. On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:36, Wouter van Vliet wrote: $String

Re: [PHP] str_replace question

preg_replace('/\d+/','',$the_string); Hope this helps. Andrey - Original Message - From: Andras Kende [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 4:29 AM Subject: [PHP] str_replace question Is a nicer way to remove any number 1-0 from a string???

Re: [PHP] str_replace question

Andras Kende [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is a nicer way to remove any number 1-0 from a string??? Currently: $metakeywords=str_replace(1,'',strtolower($metakeywords)); $metakeywords=str_replace(2,'',strtolower($metakeywords)); $metakeywords=str_replace(3,'',strtolower($metakeywords));