going crazy with reg-ex..

[heiner]

Hello all,

I'm literally going mad with regular expression problems. Basically, I just want to do a simple replacement via ereg_replace. But the string I wanna replace is a link with a query in it, and PHP takes e.g. the "?" as a regex-function (naturally). I tried a lot of things, made some advances, but basically I failed in really making this work.

Here's an example string I wanna replace:

$link = index.php?category=Lebenslauf&print=true&javascript=false

I'd love to have a simple solution like:

$newstring = ereg_replace($link, $replace, $originalstring);

I'd be VERY thankful for help here - I'm really going mad with this!

Thanks in advance!

[Anon]

first of all, I would use preg and not ereg.....
Read the doc, with preg, for special chars as ? you need to backslash it - and care about magic quotes, if they are on you'll need something like ///?...