replace ereg_replace with preg_replace

php regex string preg-replace ereg-replace
user359187 picture user359187 · Sep 6, 2010 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

Hi need to change the function ereg_replace("[\]", "", $theData) to preg_replace

Answer

codaddict picture codaddict · Sep 6, 2010

To port ereg_replace to preg_replace you need to put the regex between a pair of delimiter

Also your regx is [\] is invalid to be used for preg_replace as the \ is escaping the closing char class ]

The correct port is

preg_replace('/[\\\]/','',$theData)

Also since the char class has just one char there is no real need of char class you can just say:

preg_replace('/\\\/','',$theData)

Since you are replace just a single char, using regex for this is not recommended. You should be using a simple text replacement using str_replace as:

str_replace('\\','',$data);

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