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> regular expressions
> the example below should turn any character exept "\*" (*= any char)
> into an "x":
>
> $term = preg_replace('/[^(\\\)+(.){1}]/', 'x', $term);
>
> but i guess because of the [brackets] the "." (period) is treated as
> character "." instead as metacharacter (that matches any char).
>
> anyone knows how to work around this?
Maybe...
$term = preg_replace('/[^\\]./','x',$term);
which would replace any character that's NOT a \ followed by any other
character with an x...
Not tested, of course. :)
---John Holmes...
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