Posted by Jochem Maas on 06/09/05 13:48

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>>>>$string="I have xxxxxxxx apples!";
>>>>$string=preg_replace("/x+/sim","x", $string);
>>>>print "$string";

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>>>Thanks, that did it. I did not know about the +. And what is the 'sim'
>>
>>its not one thing but 3 things, everything that comes after a
>>regexp closing marker (but inside the string) is treated as a regexp modifier,
>>in this case the modifiers are:
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>>modifer - meaning
>>------------------------------------
>>s - PCRE_DOTALL
>>i - PCRE_CASELESS
>>m - PCRE_MULTILINE
>>
>>read more here: http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php
>>
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> Thank you for that link! I have so much to learn (there is so much to learn).

well the guys that wrote the page deserve the credit!, and I know how you feel
about the learning thing - everytime you think you have a reasonable understanding
of something, another door opens and you realise you don't know 'jack'! :-)

good luck

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