# frank.arensmeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / 2006-10-09 09:46:01 +0200:
> Is it possible to have a user defined function for the replacement
> within an ereg_replace (like preg_replace_callback)? I am working on
> a script that converts html pages with metric data into imperial
> data. My script takes text strings containing one or more instances
> of e.g. "123 mm", "321 mm", "123 kg", "123 cm2" and so on. The script
> searches the string with a pattern like:
> "([[:digit:]]+|[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+)([[:blank:]]?)(mm)"
your pattern is valid PCRE AFAICS. why don't you just use
preg_replace_callback? it's faster, more capable...
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