Posted by Erwin Moller on 10/19/75 11:43

Geoff Berrow wrote:

> Message-ID: <4427b828$0$11073$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> from Erwin Moller
> contained the following:
>
>>Read this:
>>http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php
>>
>>So you could add the m modifier, like this:
>>echo preg_replace('/^b.*\\n/m','',$contents);
>>
>>where:
>>^b means begins with b
>>.* means: anything untill end of line (\n) is reached
>>\\n means the end of line
>>and the m outside the // means that your string is treated the way you
>>ment too (see description at www.php.net).
>
> I really have to learn more about regex. In the meantime...
>
> <?
> $contents = file('dummy.txt');
> foreach($contents as $value){
> echo ($value{0}!="b")? $value."<br>" : "";
> }
> ?>

Personally I prefer non-regex solutions too.
Regex is ok as long as I am able to read what it says, and the bigger
complex regex always give me headaches. :P

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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