From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> it's pretty simple: i need a regex that matches any character in a
> string except "\*" (* stands for any char that follows the "\").
>
> example: "this is \ba test"
> should match: this a is test
>
> isn't there a way to do this?
Turn that around. What you need to do is remove \* from your string...
$new_str = preg_replace('/\\./','',$old_str);
Regular expressions are for "pattern matching"... not matching everything
BUT a pattern.
---John Holmes...
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