On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 03:11:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 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.
This really belongs on a PHP list, not here.
Go to http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php and the perl docs, and
take a look at what parentheses do in pattern matching.
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