Posted by Janwillem Borleffs on 12/19/05 13:36

nescio wrote:
> 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?
>

$newname = preg_replace('|^/\*([^/]+).*|', '$1', $name);


JW

[Back to original message]