PHP question - regular expressions, string replacement.

[Nevermore]

Does anyone know how I could replace a string that starts with a certain character, and ends with a certain character, but has any number of, and combination of, other characters in between. I think it can be done with regular expressions, but haven't used them very much before.

BTW, in case you didn't read the title, I'm using PHP.

Thankyou.

[khalidali63]

you can use substring string manipulation functions as well,for RegExp..hunmm..PM pyro..:D

[pyro]

lol... :D

Try this:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

var re = /^A.*Z$/; //set up reg exp to start with an uppercase A and end with an uppercase Z and take anything and everything in between

var mystring = "Ad3f24fj-@%(}lZ"; //string to replace

var mynewstring = mystring.replace(re, "yourreplacement") //replace mystring with "yourreplacement"

alert (mynewstring);

</script>

[Nevermore]

Does anyone know if there is a PHP way to do this, as I am using PHP for the rest of the operation?

[pyro]

Oh boy... I didn't read you question very well... :( Here is the PHP version. (untested)

$re = /^A.*Z$/; //set up reg exp to start with an uppercase A and end with an uppercase Z and take anything and everything in between

$mystring = "Ad3f24fj-@%(}lZ"; //string to replace

$mynewstring = str_replace($re, "yourreplacement", $mystring) //replace mystring with "yourreplacement"

echo $mynewstring;

NOTE: if that doesn't work, let me know, and I'll get you a tested version... right now I'm in a hurry.

[Nevermore]

Don't you need to use ereg_replace to use regular expressions? I can't get your code to work - any ideas why, or other things I could try?

[Nevermore]

I have the replace feature working, but I have a new problem. How would I make it allow any character in between the two letters, rather than just the alphabet and numbers? I need to be able to allow basically every character.

[Nevermore]

Never mind, I got it! Thanks for all of your help.

:D :D :D