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Re: How do I do this search and replace? [message #172304 is a reply to message #172300] Sat, 12 February 2011 22:51 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:15:44 -0800 (PST)
"laredotornado(at)zipmail(dot)com" <laredotornado(at)zipmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I'm using PHP 5. I want to search for all instances of the "\n"
> character in my $contents variable and replace it with "\r\n".
> However, I do not want to replace the "\n" if the character
> immediately before is already a "\r". How would I construct such
> a search and replace to do this?

http://www.regular-expressions.info/lookaround.html#lookbehind

using negative lookbehind

$contents = preg_replace("/(?<!\r)\n/", "\r\n", $contents);


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