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Posted by Bob Stearns on 06/20/06 21:27
StevePBurgess@gmail.com wrote:
> With a string of authors such as:
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> Carson, David, Milne, Rebecca, Pakes, Francis J., Shalev, Karen,
> Shawyer, Andrea
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> I would like to write a function to change every other comma into a
> semi colon (thereby defining where one name ends and the next begins).
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> I could do it by writing a complex (and slow) procedure - but is there
> a quick way of doing it using regular expressions, for example?
>
> Many thanks.
>
Something like the following should do:
$names = ereg_replace("\([^,]*,[^,]*\),", "\\1;", $names)
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