preg_replace/other options

mikan

I'm slowly attempting to convert some scripts from perl to php and running into some problems. Replace functions that have normally worked for me have suddenly stopped.

str_replace(".","",$MainSentence);
str_replace("!","",$MainSentence);
str_replace("\?","",$MainSentence);
str_replace(",","",$MainSentence);
str_replace(";","",$MainSentence);
str_replace("\"","",$MainSentence);
str_replace("_"," ",$MainSentence);
str_replace(" "," ",$MainSentence);
strtolower($MainSentence);

	preg_replace($SmallWords," ",$MainSentence);

is done in a foreach loop. $SmallWords is an array containing '/text/' fields. The str_replaces and lower don't function at all, and the preg_replace produces the error:

Warning: No ending delimiter '/' found in /Library/WebServer/Documents/txtparse.php on line 152

Warning: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in /Library/WebServer/Documents/txtparse.php on line 152

each time the loop goes around. Can anyone help? Thanks

Anon

try changing this line:

str_replace("\"",",$MainSentence);

okay, first of all you are missing a comma in there but i think that might just be a local typo when you were entering in the post. anyway try this:

str_replace("\", ",", $MainSentence);

mikan

Actually I'm trying to replace the quote with a nothing there, not a slash with a nothing, but the first slash is to de-value the quote so that it doens't think that its the end of the expression.

If I'm understanding what you're suggesting that is.