Posted by noone on 03/23/06 21:05

sclemens420@hotmail.com wrote:

> On the PHP site on the preg_replace() function page (
> http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php ), example 1
> uses "@" signs in the regular expression members of the "search" array.
> On another PHP site (
> http://www.phpfreaks.com/phpmanual/page/function.preg-replace.html ),
> Example 5 is the same script except the regex array members use double-
> then single-quotes.

> Why?

> Both scripts seem to work the same. I can find no documentation on how
> the "@" sign affects how the regex is used.

> A link to explanatory documentation would be highly appreciated.

the "@" sign in the first example is used as the delimiter. In the second
example the delimiter is "/"

With regex - you can use almost any meta-character as a delimiter.

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