ereg_replace with "(" and ")"?

[Anon]

Hi Folks!

I got a little Problem... I have a string with several dates in... every date looks like this:
(03.04.2001) or (17.03.1999)...

the fine thing is: I can use the "(" and ")" to find out what the dates are, but my ereg_replace doesnt work with the "("-Symbols.. so I did this:

$match1 = str_replace("(","killthis1",$match1);
$match1 = str_replace(")","killthis2",$match1);
$match1 = ereg_replace("killthis1.*killthis2","",$match1);

but this wont work... dont know why!

[Anon]

parens are control characters in regular expressions. In order to use them in your ereg_replace statement, just escape them:

( becomes (