FUDforum: comp.lang.php » Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg

Home » Imported messages » comp.lang.php » Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg_replace

Show: Today's Messages :: Polls :: Message Navigator

Re: Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg_replace [message #180592 is a reply to message #180585]

Mon, 04 March 2013 10:39

Captain Paralytic
Messages: 204
Registered: September 2010

Karma:

Senior Member

On Mar 1, 3:24 pm, da...@allheller.net wrote:
> On Friday, March 1, 2013 8:10:07 AM UTC-5, da...@allheller.net wrote:
>> Hello
>
>> I'm totally confused none of the examples I've googled seem to help with fixing the following line of code:
>
>> $myfunc = ereg_replace("0+$", "", $data);
>
>> I've tried $myfunc = preg_replace("/0+$/", "/", $data);
>
>> Please any help would be appreciated as I did not write this code and really still trying to figure out regex functions.
>
>> Thanks,
>
>> Dave
>
> Thanks for all the help. "str_replace" works as a direct drop in replacement for "ereg_replace"

It is no where near a direct drop replacement. What the ereg above
does is to remove trailing zeros (the $ sign means the end of the
line, it is not a literal $). Your str_replace will not do anything
like that.

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg_replace By: daveh on Fri, 01 March 2013 13:10
		Re: Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg_replace By: Michael Vilain on Fri, 01 March 2013 14:00
		Re: Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg_replace By: Christoph Becker on Fri, 01 March 2013 14:17
		Re: Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg_replace By: daveh on Fri, 01 March 2013 15:24
		Re: Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg_replace By: daveh on Fri, 01 March 2013 16:09
		Re: Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg_replace By: Captain Paralytic on Mon, 04 March 2013 10:39
		Re: Need help with updating ereg_replace function -> to preg_replace By: Denis McMahon on Thu, 07 March 2013 05:53

Previous Topic:	Other source for help?
Next Topic:	returning values from a 2d array

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Wed Feb 19 20:59:02 GMT 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.04787 seconds