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$string="I have xxxxxxxx apples!";
$string=preg_replace("/x+/sim","x", $string);
print "$string";
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Thanks, that did it. I did not know about the +. And what is the 'sim'
its not one thing but 3 things, everything that comes after a
regexp closing marker (but inside the string) is treated as a regexp modifier,
in this case the modifiers are:
modifer - meaning
------------------------------------
s - PCRE_DOTALL
i - PCRE_CASELESS
m - PCRE_MULTILINE
read more here:
http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php
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Thank you for that link! I have so much to learn (there is so much to learn).
well the guys that wrote the page deserve the credit!, and I know how you feel
about the learning thing - everytime you think you have a reasonable
understanding
of something, another door opens and you realise you don't know 'jack'! :-)
good luck
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