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Posted by Erwin Moller on 10/24/07 08:21
cmk128@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi
Hi,
> PHP's regular expression look like doesn't support .*? syntax. So i
> cannot match the shortest match. For exmaple:
>
> $str="a1b a3b";
Typo. That was $str1="a1b a3b" I expect.
> $str1=ereg_replace("a.*b", "peter", $str1);
> will produce "peter", but i want "peter peter", so how to?
>
Yes, * is greedy.
I do not know your real-world example, but maybe using a wordboundary
can solve your problem?
eg:
$str1=ereg_replace("/a.*b\b/", "peter", $str1);
> thanks
> from Peter (cmk128@hotmail.com)
>
Regards,
Erwin Moller
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