Merlin wrote:
thank you, that worked excellent!
Merlin
Dave Goodchild schrieb:
On 27/05/06, Merlin <ngroups@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi there,
I am somehow lost when it comes to regex. I am trying to remove ! and ?
characters from a string. Could somebody please help me to get a working
regex running for that?
I tried: $str = preg_replace('/\!\?\./', ' ', $str);
How about $str = preg_replace('/(\!|\?)+/', $str);
**NEVER** use regular expressions for simple search/replace
operations!!! They are MUCH slower than a simple string replace, and
should be avoided if at all possible. What you are doing is a very
simple string replace, and you should not use regular expressions for that.
I am assuming you want to remove the ! and ? and not replace them with a
space. In this case:
$str = str_replace(array("!". "?"), "", $str);
Or if you did want to replace them with a space:
$str = str_replace(array("!". "?"), " ", $str);
This is especially important if you're doing the string replace in a
loop, but even if you aren't, it is very bad style to use regular
expressions for such a simple replacement.
Regards, Adam Zey.
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