How to replace the first result only?

[Anon]

Hello everybody,

I've a qusetion about using ereg_replace() function.
I need to replace ONLY the first result, except the others.
For example, when I have a data variable ($data) which containig some text, and I need to find names 'Goerge' and replace it with 'GeorgeIII', but I don not want to replace all 'Goerge' names, but OLNY the first one.
Do you know how can I do that?

In Perl, I can use:

$data=~s!George! GeorgeIII !m;

but when I use ereg_replace func. in PHP, it will replace ALL George names.

$data=ereg_replace("George","GeorgeIII",$data);

I used ereg_replace because I need an advanced expression for my real search.
Do you have an idea for that?

Thank you!
Monrey

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try using preg_replace instead, that 'should' understand perl-compatible regular expressions.