Re: preg_replace help

From: Janwillem Borleffs (jw_at_jwscripts.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:41:31 +0200

Harrie Verveer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at school I already learned about regular expressions, however the
> notation was totally different from the notation in php (for example in
> preg_replace). Can someone tell me how I have to read things like
> "/\s+/"? Anyone knows a good tutorial or explaining website about those
> regular expressions?
>

Search for the Meta-characters section on:

http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php

JW

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