Posted by Al on 11/14/47 11:22

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 7/28/05, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:
>
>>Dotan,
>>now _I'm_ sending _you_ multiple copies (last one didn't go to the list by mistake!)
>>
>>php -r '
>>echo preg_replace("#the#","a","Then the big bear ate the little cat in the north of the woods.",1), "\n";
>>'
>
>
> Wow! It was those hash signs. They didn't teach me THAT at the Primate
> Programmers course...
>
> Now on to google to go learn about those hash signs...
>
> Dotan
> http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/119/clapton_eric.php
> Clapton, Eric Song Lyrics


There is nothing sacred about what you use for delimiters, just don't use preg's special characters
and any characters contained in your pattern, obviously. Personally, I use "%" because I rarely use
it an a pattern and it's easy to spot at the end.

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