Posted by nescio on 12/19/05 13:14

hello,

i have got a list of names in the following format:
$name = "/*jansen*/jansen";
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i want to change them into:
$name = "jansen";
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i tried to use a regular expression to do this:
$newname = ereg_replace('^(/\*)([a-zA-Z]+)(\*/)$', '',$name);

but i always get the same value back:
$newname = "/*jansen*/jansen";

what am i doing wrong?

thanks

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