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', $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 [a-zA-Z] characters ?
> >
> > this sure isn't working
> > <snip>
> > $test = "jerry";
> > $test = ereg_replace("^\w*", "^[a-zA-Z]{2}" ,$test);
> > </snip>
>
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