Re: FN-FORUM: ereg patterns

date posted 16th August 2004 11:42

Hi,

Thanks, that was just what I needed - works perfectly.

Best regards,
Joe.

On 16 Aug 2004 11:12:46 -0000, Martin W Brown
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>
> Hi Joe,
>
> This seems to work:
>
> ereg_replace(' (\*[A-Za-z0-9_]+\*) ', '\\0', "This is a string
> with *words* in it");
>
> Think this is what you want. If you don't want the * in the output then
> move them outside the ().
>
> HTH
>
> Martin
>
>
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