On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:15:53PM +0200, John Clegg wrote: > Hi Joel, > > Thanks for the reply. > > I have tried using "/" to delimit the string and I get the following error > > String > > $url = "/http://www.foo.com/maxbid/Unsubscribe.php?EmailAddress=[MAIL]/";; > > Gives the error: > *Warning*: Unknown modifier '/' in* /test.php* on line *8* > > I found out that I could use ' to delimit from Example 5 in the php > manual page for preg_replace.
Whoops, you're totally right. The single quote should work fine. I shouldn't underestimate PHP ;) > Also I need to replace only one occurance of the string at a time, so I > can't use str_replace :-( . > > Any other suggestions?? The problem is that there are still special chars that need escaping. Specifically, the question mark (?) and the square braces ([]). Here is some modified code (apologies for poor word-wrapping): <?php $code = "blah http://www.foo.com/maxbid/Unsubscribe.php?EmailAddress=[MAIL] blah "; $url = "'http://www.foo.com/maxbid/Unsubscribe.php\?EmailAddress=\[MAIL\]'"; echo "BEFORE : $code\n\n"; $replace = "Foo"; $code = preg_replace($url,$replace,$code,1); echo "AFTER: $code\n"; ?> When I run this, the output is: BEFORE : blah http://www.foo.com/maxbid/Unsubscribe.php?EmailAddress=[MAIL] blah AFTER: blah Foo blah Next time, I'll test out my answers before I give 'em. HTH! -- [ joel boonstra | gospelcom.net ] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
