yay.
this preg business methinks needs some more looking into. ;) everywhere
I've looked theres always one or 2 people proselytizing its greatness.
my late-night "boredom" reading of O'Reilly's _Perl_ (sans computer or
pause) left little behind little information in my head, not surprisingly.
Thanks much, sir.
--kevin
On 21 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kevin Keeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > $entry_hidden = eregi_replace("<hide>.+</hide>","<hidden>",$entry);
>
> try: $entry_hidden = preg_replace("|<hide>.+?</hide>|i","<hidden>",$entry);
>
> ".+" is 'greedy', meaning it consumes as much as text as it can. with
> perl-like regular expressions, you can add a trailing "?" which makes
> the + and * operators non-greedy.
>
> jim
>
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