preg_replace("/x+/", "x", $string); should do it. Having that said,
regex generally comes back and bites me in the ass, so...........
On 6/8/05, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Now, I know that this is easy, but I am embarassed to say that I can't
> find a regex tutorial that will show me how to match any occurances of
> x and replace them with one x:
>
> xxxxx >x
> xx > x
> x > x
>
> $string="I have xxxxxxxx apples!";
> $string=preg_replace("-regex here-","x", $string);
> print "$string";
>
> I have x apples!
>
> I searched marc because I know that I've seen this, but I don't know
> on what keywords to search. I know that php uses perl-compatable
> regular expressions, but in no tutorial did I find this. I know that *
> matches any amount of occurances of a string, but formulating it to do
> it in the middle of a string of text I could not get.
>
> Dotan
> http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/19/adams_bryan.php
> Bryan Adams Lyrics
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