how to do it???

[pfchin]

Dear all,

does anyone know how to do the replace pattern in a string??? i have 12 sets of different pattern, is there any function to let me replace all the 12 sets diff pattern in once??? i know how to use the ereg_replace to replace the patterns but with 12 sets of pattern i need to do it in 12 times??? or there is another way to do it, if so, i need ur helps to show me this...

thanks & regards,
pf

[Weedpacket]

Yes, use preg_replace() instead.

[pfchin]

dear all,

i have tried to use preg_replace() to do some replacements but there are showing warnings and it seems doesn't work, my code is like below:

$patterns = array ("^{\s$","(😃)+$","(😕)+$","(🆒)+$","(:eek🙂+$","(:frown🙂+$","(:mad🙂+$","(:redface🙂+$","(:rolleyes🙂+$","(:))+$","^(:p)+$","^(;))+$");}

$replacements = array("<br>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/biggrin.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/confused.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/cool.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/eek.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/frown.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/mad.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/redface.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/rolleyes.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/smile.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/tongue.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>",
"<img src='/public_html/icon/wink.gif' style='width:20 heigh:20' border='0'>");

$threadmesg = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $crow
[contents]);

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when i execute the page it shows 12 warnings like this and the preg_replace seem doesn't work:

Warning: No ending delimiter found in c:\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs/public_html/forumthrep.php on line 60

is there any problems with my code??? pls help...

thanks & regards,
pf

[Weedpacket]

Yes, you aren't using any deliminters in your regexps. See the manual entries for the preg_* functions to see what you're missing.