On Wednesday 03 July 2002 01:40, Martin Clifford wrote:
> Hey all!
>
> I'm trying to get this darn eregi_replace() to work, but it doesn't produce
> any results at all.
>
> I want it to find all occurances of PHP variables.  Here is the regexp
>
> $output = eregi_replace("^[\$]{1,2}[a-zA-Z][0-9]+$", "<b>\\1</b>", $var);
>
> As you might guess this is for a syntax highlighting function I am trying
> to write.  Anyone have any ideas why it's not working?  Please copy me
> directly, as I'm on the digest.  Thanks!

Your regex looks suspiciously like a PCRE!

Try changing eregi_replace to preg_replace.

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