Posted by Jason Wong on 04/12/05 13:47

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 18:30, jem777 wrote:
> Php docs are quite messy about what works with what function...
> This is my problem; I want to strip out spaces from my tags:
>
> $word = "[ / quote ]";
> $word = eregi_replace("[[[:blank:]]*quote[[:blank:]]*]", "[quote]",
> $word); $word =
> eregi_replace("[[[:blank:]]*\/[[:blank:]]*quote[[:blank:]]*]",
> "[/quote]", $word);
>
> I would expect the result to be: [/quote] but it is [ /[quote].
> It seems the first replace actually do the replace, but the how does it
> match the slash "/" ???

preg_replace('|\[\s*/\s*quote\s*]|', '[/quote]', $word);

You might want to spice it up with some ungreedy modifiers.

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