preg_replace help

[jonesf]

Hi all,

😕

I am so confused by preg_replace

I have very long string, and it happens to have a domain in it, and the domain has hyphens in it, and extends to a few directories.

Example:

text of string...http://www.my-domain-here.com/dir1/dir2/file.txt...remaining text

And I want to change this to

text of string...http://www.newdomain.com/file.txt...remaining text

The file.txt changes for every file. The only static text is the domain and the directories.

How do I do a preg_replace to change the domain and dirs to a normal domain.

Many Thanks.

[jonesf]

Hi all,

This is want i have which does not work.

$mytext = preg_replace('/www.my-domain-name.com\/dir1\/dir2\/dir3/','www.newdomain.com',$mytext);

which does not work.

[freedom]

I do not have instant access to a php interpreter here, but I think you have to double the backslashes, eg it would become:

$mytext=preg_replace('/www\.my-domain-name\.com\/dir1\/dir2\/dir3/','www.newdomain.com',$mytext);