Re: preg_replace() help

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Rick Pasotto wrote:
I have quotes like the following:

$txt = 'A promise is a debt. -- Irish Proverb';

I'd like to replace all the spaces afer the '--' with  

This is what I've tried:

	$pat = '/( --.*)(\s|\n)/U';
    $rpl = '$1$2 ';
    while (preg_match($pat,$txt,$matches) > 0) {
        print "$txt\n";
        printf("[0]: <%s>\n",$matches[0]);
        printf("[1]: <%s>\n",$matches[1]);
        printf("[2]: <%s>\n",$matches[2]);
        preg_replace($pat,$rpl,$txt);
    }

The prints are for debugging. $matches contains what I expect but
nothing gets replaced and $txt stays the same so it loops forever.

What am I doing wrong?


Maybe this

<?php

$txt = 'A promise is a debt. -- Irish Proverb';

$parts = explode('--', $txt, 2);

$parts[1] = str_replace(' ', '&nbsp;', $parts[1]);

echo join('--', $parts);

?>

--
Jim Lucas

   "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
       and some have greatness thrust upon them."

Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
    by William Shakespeare

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