In article <000801c1a9c5$26007460$0100007f@localhost>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Danaher) wrote:
> What I am trying to do is have a line of text break at a "space" after
> reading 19 words. Having read the various methods of finding and replacing
> one character with another, I settled on preg replace as my best choice, but
> this function doesn't accept a space in the regular expression slot. What
> can I do to get around this, or is there a better function than the one I
> selected?
>
> $statement=preg replace(" ","<br>",$original,19);
>
> Warning: Empty regular expression in /home/www/host/document.php on line 71
It's not the space character that's prompting the error, it's the absence
of regex delimiters around the space.
$statement=preg replace("/ /","<br>",$original,19);
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php>
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.syntax.php>
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