Basic ereg_replace problem

[csousley]

I know this seems simple, but it's starting to anger me...

$test = "(apple)";
$test2 = "(apple), (pear), (smile)";

echo "<br>1- $test";
echo "<br>2- $test2";

$test2 = ereg_replace($test,"",$test2);

echo "<p><b>$test2";

Displays as:

1- (apple)
2- (apple), (pear), (smile)

(), (pear), (smile)

Why isn't it displaying:

1- (apple)
2- (apple), (pear), (smile)

, (pear), (smile)

I've tried addslashes and manually adding \'s to the test variables and that isn't working.

Any help would be great, thanks!

[axo]

note that PCRE recognizes brackets "()" different...

$test1 = "\(apple\)";
$test2 = "(apple)" , "(pear)" , "(smile)";

you won't have this problem using str_replace() instead of preg_replace 🙂

greets
axo

[csousley]

str_replace worked great. Thanks for the help - Cy