funny regex

[ronald_k]

Hi,

I have a function that should put an image before a link to a .-doc-file:

function showwordico($in) {
$pic = "<img src=\"pix/wordicon.gif\">";
$pattern = "<a href=\"[a-z]{3,}://[a-z0-9/. %_-]+.doc\">";
$out = eregi_replace($pattern, $pic . "\0", $in);
return $out;
}
The input is a long text-string.
On my Windows-machine the function works fine, but on Linux nothing happens ($out == $in, i.e. no match found).

How can I make it work on Linux too??

Ronald

[ronald_k]

In the meantime someone sent me this solution, which works the way it should:

function showwordico($input)
{
return eregi_replace(
'<a href="[a-z]{3,}://[a-z0-9/_%.-]{1,}.doc">',
'<img src="pix/wordicon.gif"> \0' ,
$input);
}

My original didn't work with Linux / PHP 4.0.3, but it did work on Linux / PHP 4.0.6. Maybe there is a difference??