[PHP] ereg issues

I'm feeling a bit stupid today how do I truncate a string to the first two [a-zA-Z] characters ? this sure isn't working snip $test = jerry; $test = ereg_replace(^\w*, ^[a-zA-Z]{2} ,$test); /snip Jerry Lake Interface Engineering Technician Europa Communications - http://www.europa.com Pacifier

RE: [PHP] ereg issues

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 first two

RE: [PHP] ereg issues

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 a \w a word character, meaning a-zA-Z_0-9

Re: [PHP] ereg issues

] 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 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

RE: [PHP] ereg issues

To: 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] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Dempsey Sent