RE: [PHP] ereg issues

: scott [gts] Cc: Php-General Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg issues print preg_replace('/^(.*?)([a-zA-Z]{2})(.*)/','\\2',$blah); try that -jack "scott [gts]" wrote: > > oh yeah. sorry... > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

Re: [PHP] ereg issues

; Dempsey > > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:15 PM > > To: ..s.c.o.t.t.. [gts] > > Cc: Php-General > > Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg issues > > > > > > isn't a \w a word character, meaning a-zA-Z_0-9 (in perl)? > > if so, that wouldn't match

RE: [PHP] ereg issues

oh yeah. sorry... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack > Dempsey > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:15 PM > To: ..s.c.o.t.t.. [gts] > Cc: Php-General > Subject: Re: [PHP] ereg issues > > > isn't

Re: [PHP] ereg issues

gt; > works for: > > $blah = "*9 scott 777zxsdf"; > and > $blah = "scott"; > > > -Original Message- > > From: Jerry Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Subject: [PHP] ereg issues > > > > I'm feeling a bit stupid toda

RE: [PHP] ereg issues

print preg_replace('/(.*?)(\w{2})(.*)/', '\\2', $blah); works for: $blah = "*9 scott 777zxsdf"; and $blah = "scott"; > -Original Message- > From: Jerry Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: [PHP] ereg issues > > I'm fe

[PHP] ereg issues

I'm feeling a bit stupid today how do I truncate a string to the first two [a-zA-Z] characters ? this sure isn't working $test = "jerry"; $test = ereg_replace("^\w*", "^[a-zA-Z]{2}" ,$test); Jerry Lake Interface Engineering Technician Europa Communications - http://www.europa.com Pacifier Onli