$test = "<div><b><i>#uniquetag#</b></i></div> <div>Keep this</div>"; $test = preg_replace("/<div(.*)#uniquetag#(.*)<\/div>/i", "#uniquetag#", $test); I want the result to be $test = "#uniquetag# <div>Keep this</div>"; But it returns $test = "#uniquetag#"; I think I know why. (.*) is greedy and it extend the search till the end...
I have this code : $count = 0; preg_replace('/test/', 'test'. $count, $content,-1,$count); For every replace, I obtain test0. I would like to get test0, test1, test2 etc.. ...
I'm trying to remove from a string everything start with / char, so if I have my_value/j/im<b*+èo[/h>e\ylo I'd like to remove the string /j/im<b*+èo[/h>e\ylo and return only my_value. I thought to use something with str_replace but I'm not a great regex programmer and I'm doing practise with php. function clean_value ($value) { r...
Hi, I have a regular expression that I use to reduce multiple slashes to single slashes. The purpose is to read a url that is previously converted to a human readable link using mod_rewrite in apache, like this : http://www.website.com/about/me This works : $uri = 'about//me'; $uri = preg_replace('#//+#', '/', $uri); echo $uri; // e...
I've gone over other questions from stack overflow with similar ideas but none seem to resemble closely enough what I'm trying to do. Seems simple, but I'm in a pickle. I'm trying to replace multiple occurrences of a line break (\n) with only one line break, so people won't be able to submit more than one line break at a time. Here's wh...
Possible Duplicate: PHP Preg-Replace more than one underscore Hi, I'm just wondering how I can replace 2 or more - signs in a string with just one in PHP. So like 1-2---3--4 would go to 1-2-3-4 Thanks :) ...
I can get it to remove all the question marks with the code below: preg_replace('/(\?+)/', '', $string) No matter what I seem to do I can't get it to also remove all the minus signs as well. Everything I try just breaks the whole regex. ...
It seems like an easy problem to solve, but It's not as easy as it seems. I have this string in PHP: ////%postname%/ This is a URL and I never want more than one slash in a row. I never want to remove the slashes completely. This is how it should look like: /%postname%/ Because the structure could look different I need a clever pr...
Hi , really simple question how can I preg_replace the backslash charactor ? ...
Howdy, I'm trying to come=up with a regex string to use with the PHP preg functions (preg_match, etc.) and am stumped on this: How do you match this string?: {area-1}some text and maybe a <a href="http://google.com">link</a>.{/area-1} I want to replace it with a different string using preg_replace. So far I've been able to...
Hi! How do I get "Lrumipsm1" from "Lörum ipsäm 1!"? So what I need is to only get a-z and 0-9 from a string, using php. ...
these word1 and word2 is in brackets want to remove the whole line depends on word2 [word1] something-line-text [word2] some text again want to replace some text with another depends on word2 [word1] something-line-text [word2] some text again into REPLCACEDTEXT something-line-text some text again some line text (something/...
$text = "Clip - http://depositfiles.com/files/8b5560fne Mp3 - http://letitbit.net/download/4920.adaf494fbe2b15c34a4733f20/Madonna___The_Power_Of_Good_Bye.mp3.html Madonna - The power of goodbye Your heart is not open, so I must go The spell has been broken...I loved you so Freedom comes when you learn to let go Creation co...
I want to replace the class with the div text like this : This: <div class="grid-flags" >FOO</div> Becomes: <div class="iconFoo" ></div> So the class is changed to "icon". ucfirst(strtolower(FOO)) and the text is removed Test HTML <div class="grid-flags" >FOO</div> Pattern '/class=\"grid-flags\" \>(FOO|BAR|BAZ)/e' Replacement ...
Assuming I have this string: "abc{def{ghi{jkl}mno{pqr}st}uvw}xyz" and I want to match this: "{def{ghi{jkl}mno{pqr}st}uvw}" what should my regular expression look like..? In other words, the match should start with "{" and end with "}", but it must have as many {'s as }'s in between. ...
Hi Stackers! I'm using CodeIgniter, alongside the highlight_code("$string"); (More info) function to provide syntax highlighting to a dynamic site. I want the users to be able to submit their own posts written in a BBCode-style format. I'm using NBBC PHP library for this. My problem is that nomatter how I do it I cannot get NBBC to syn...
I'm getting $row['message'] from my mysql db and I need to remove all whitespaces like \n \t and so on. $row['message'] = 'This is a Text \n and so on \t Text text.'; should be formated to: $row['message'] = 'This is a Text and so on Text text.'; I tried $ro = preg_replace('/\s\s+/', ' ',$row['message']); echo $ro; but ...
I found this code which will match at most 300 chars, then break at the next nearest word-break: $var = 'This is a test text 1234567890 test check12.' # 44 chars preg_match('/^.{0,300}(?:.*?)\b/iu', $var, $matches); echo $matches[0]; 44 is lower than 300, so I expect the output to be the same like $var. But the output is: This i...
Hi. I have a string &168491968426|mobile|3|100|1&185601651932|mobile|3|120|1&114192088691|mobile|3|555|5& and i have to delete, say, this part &185601651932|mobile|3|120|1& (starting with amp and ending with amp) knowing only the first number up to vertical line (185601651932) so that in result i would have &168491968426|mobile|3|1...
I'm using the preg_replace function to replace accents in a string, I'm working with UTF-8. I have incurred in what seems to be a memory leak, but I can't isolate the root cause, my code is rather simple: preg_replace( array_keys($aToNoAccents), array_values($aToNoAccents), $sText ); where $aToNoAccent...