Re: Regex - how to match until something
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Re: Regex - how to match until something

From: Rik <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun Apr 30 2006 - 02:55:54 CEST



veg_all@yahoo.com wrote:


> $string1 = preg_replace ( '/Hello.*(?!today)/', 'Hello ***' , $string1



> $string1 = 'Hello world today';



'Hello world today' isn't followed by "today", so it returns true,



Read up on regexes.



Learn what (.*?) means.



$string1 = preg_replace ( '/Hello(.*?)( today)/', 'Hello ***\2' , $string1);



Grtz,



-- 
Rik Wasmus


Received on Mon May  1 03:07:36 2006