On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, James Taylor wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 March 2002 02:49 pm, you wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, James Taylor wrote:
>>> I'm trying to do something to the effect of this for a preg_replace
>>> statement:
>>>
>>> $string = "Hello\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are you?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHi";
>>> $string = preg_replace("/\n\n/", "/\n/", $string);
>>>
>>>
>>> But, it appears the 'replace' portion of the function doesn't allow for
>>> regex. How can I do this so that I CAN have the second statement be
>>> regex?
>>
>> I think you just have your syntax messed up. You don't need delimiters
>> around the second argument.
>>
>> $string = preg_replace("/\n\n/", "\n", $string);
>
> This is just an example. There are some cases where I need the second option
> to be a regular expression, the same way that you can do in Perl regex...
Regular expressions are for matching. Can you provide an example that
illustrates what you're trying to do?
miguel
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