How to replace an \

[Anon]

If I have a string like:

hello\world

How can I replace it to:

hello word

?

I used preg_replace but it just doesn't seem to work.

[Anon]

I think what you are missing is that you have to put two of them. So if hello\world is in the variable $string:

$new_string = preg_replace("/\/", " ", $string);

Or, the easier way is with str_replace for this example:

$new_string = str_replace("\", " ", $string);

The backslash () is the escape character for representing non-alphanumeric characters (such as \n is a line break and \r is a line feed). But to get a literal backslash, you must escape the backslash, thus the double backslashes.

Hope that helps!

Chris King

[Anon]

I tried. But it still gives me the same error message I encountered before:

Warning: No ending delimiter found in /.../myfile.php on line 143

[Anon]

It seems that str_replace() works but preg_replace() doesn't work.

[Anon]

Whoops.. just make it three backslashes. You need one to escape for php and another to escape for the pcre library. Hope that helps.

Chris King