[Resolved] regexp

[jek]

Hi,

I'm using preg_replace (or trying to use anyway) to find every instance of ' (single quote?) in a string and replacing it. However, if there are more of the same char in a row, I want them to count as one...

Like this:

$string1 = " ' "
$string2 = " ''''' "

I want both string to translate into " hello " using preq_replace.

This is the code I'm using:

$string = preg_replace( "/('+)/", "hello", $string );

Why doesn't this work?

Thansk in advance / jek

[paulnaj]

The regexp you're using works fine ... there are one or two typo's in the bit of code you showed us, so here's a working version:

$string1 = " ' ";
$string2 = " ''''' ";
$string_new1 = preg_replace( "/('+)/", "hello", $string1);
$string_new2 = preg_replace( "/('+)/", "hello", $string2);

echo "<hr>Old: ".$string1;
echo "<br>New: ".$string_new1;
echo "<hr>Old: ".$string2;
echo "<br>New: ".$string_new2;

[mattsinclair]

<?php

$string1 = " ' ";
$string2 = "x ''''' x";

$string = preg_replace( "/(\'+)/", "replaced", $string2 );


print "--<br> $string <br>--";

?>

[jek]

Thanks a lot guys... Unfortunately it isn't working when I try it... Well, this part does when I isolated it... So the problem must be somewhere else in the code. 🙂