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Posted by Matthew Weier O'Phinney on 06/08/05 16:39
* Rory Browne <rory.browne@gmail.com> :
> preg_replace("/x+/", "x", $string); should do it. Having that said,
> regex generally comes back and bites me in the ass, so...........
That one won't -- that's spot on.
> On 6/8/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Now, I know that this is easy, but I am embarassed to say that I can't
> > find a regex tutorial that will show me how to match any occurances of
> > x and replace them with one x:
> >
> > xxxxx > x
> > xx > x
> > x > x
> >
> > $string="I have xxxxxxxx apples!";
> > $string=preg_replace("-regex here-","x", $string);
> > print "$string";
> >
> > I have x apples!
> >
> > I searched marc because I know that I've seen this, but I don't know
> > on what keywords to search. I know that php uses perl-compatable
> > regular expressions, but in no tutorial did I find this. I know that *
> > matches any amount of occurances of a string, but formulating it to do
> > it in the middle of a string of text I could not get.
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