Hi,
Wednesday, October 27, 2004, 9:04:14 PM, you wrote:
k> Hi all.
k> I have a problem: i want subs any characters from a string but i don't
k> have fix the problem.
k> The string that i want to manipulate is the value from a text field of a
k> search engine.
k> The characters that i want to try substitute is &&, &, +, -, |, ||, or,
k> and, not in not case-sensitive mode with "".
k> I have create a pattern like this:
k> $str = "Sybase and PHP not ASP or JSP && Oracle not Andy | Perl ||
k> Python + Ruby";
k> $pattern =
k> "/(\band\b)|(\bnot\b)|(\bor\b)|(\b&&\b)|(\b&\b)|(\b\.\b)|(\b\+\b)|(\b\|\|\b)|(\b\|\b)/i";
k> echo $str = preg_replace($pattern, "", $str, -1);
k> But characters like + && don't subs with "".
k> Thanks to all and sorry my bad language
this may get you started
preg_replace('!\s(and|not|or|&&|\||\|\||)\s|(\+|-\s*)!i',' ',$string);
you have to replace with ' ' or the words will run into each other and you may
also get the + or - with no trailing space.
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regards,
Tom
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