Regex (i Think) Help

[Chris92 0]

Im not good with regex and want to replace "{beginsubtitle}Example Subtitle{endsubtitle}" with "Example Subtitle". I found this useful code somewhere but it doesnt work if the i use 2 consecutive "{beginsubtitle}Example Subtitle{endsubtitle}"'s (e.g. "{beginsubtitle}Example Subtitle 1{endsubtitle} {beginsubtitle}Example Subtitle 2{endsubtitle}")

<?php$regex = "#([{]beginsubtitle[}])(.*)([{]endsubtitle[}])#e";$output = preg_replace($regex,"('$2')",$output);?>

If anyone can help it would be much apriciated!

[Ingolme 1,014]

Im not good with regex and want to replace "{beginsubtitle}Example Subtitle{endsubtitle}" with "Example Subtitle". I found this useful code somewhere but it doesnt work if the i use 2 consecutive "{beginsubtitle}Example Subtitle{endsubtitle}"'s (e.g. "{beginsubtitle}Example Subtitle 1{endsubtitle} {beginsubtitle}Example Subtitle 2{endsubtitle}")

<?php$regex = "#([{]beginsubtitle[}])(.*)([{]endsubtitle[}])#e";$output = preg_replace($regex,"('$2')",$output);?>

If anyone can help it would be much apriciated!

You need to perform what's called a "lazy search". The * modifier does a "greedy search": it will take everything it can until the last appearance of next limit. To make a search lazy, add a '?' after the modifier.You also have a lot of unnecessary brackets in your expression.I've never see the 'e' modifier before. What does it do?

$regex = "#\{beginsubtitle\}(.*?)\{endsubtitle\}#e";$output = preg_replace($regex,"('$1')",$output);

[Chris92 0]

You need to perform what's called a "lazy search". The * modifier does a "greedy search": it will take everything it can until the last appearance of next limit. To make a search lazy, add a '?' after the modifier.

$regex = "#\{beginsubtitle\}(.*?)\{endsubtitle\}#e";$output = preg_replace($regex,"('$1')",$output);

Thanks that works great :)Found it on google and changed it around a bit so a lot of brackets . I i did try to found out what the 'e' was but couldn't find anything, but it doesn't work witouht it.Thanks again

[justsomeguy 1,135]

And you're not even curious? The information is freely available.http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcr...n.modifiers.php