ereg_replace

[Anon]

Hello,

Can I somehow exclude certain characters from egeg_replace() function?

$text = ereg_replace(";b([^]);b", "<b>\1</b>", $text);

This will turn all between ;b and another ;b tag to bold. The problem is if I have another pair of these tags it won't work correctly.

If I have ^* it will accept any characters, but can I somehow exclude ;b -tags from the search?

-Sami Sipponen

[Anon]

use preg...

there are two things you can do. so long as you don't have nested bold tags you can use

/;b([^]?);b/

*? is a so called "ungreedy" quantifier that matches as little as possible.

if you do have nested tags, you can try

/;b(()[^*]);b/

(?!;b) is called "negative lookahead", () matches any [] not followed by a ;b. of course, you need to put in the extra [^*] to match the final character to be bolded, but that's not too much of a trial.

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rad