Hi,
It's none of that.
I suspect that the problem lies with the "?" question mar and the full-stop. If you look up what the question mark and full-stop means in an expression, you will find the answer to your problem. Basically you need to escape the question mark, so it is not evaluated as part of the expression, but as an absolute value.
So, it should be as follows:
$altered_file_contents = eregi_replace("index2\.php\?someVar\=SomeValue","somevar_somevalue.html", $file_contents);
Also, this will only work if the whole of the string is on one line, if the HTML code is wrapped onto two lines, then you have a problem. Obviously, there are workarounds, but for now try the above.
You may also want to look at preg_ as this is a more efficient mehtod of regexp's.
Regards,
Kevin Smith
Luis Moreira wrote:
Hi
I, for one, have never done this, but if you are working with html files, I suppose you open it with your browser ?
Have you cleared the cache, or at least forced the browser to re-open the file ?
If you edit the file after the change using a text editor, do you see the changes, or not ? Luis
Aidal wrote:
Hi NG.
I'm having trouble searching through a file and swapping specific phrases with other phrases.
I'm opening a html-file and i wish to replace "index2.php?someVar=SomeValue" with somthing else but I can't get this to work properly.
first i open the html file and read all it's contents into a var... let's call that one $file_contents for this example.
I'm currently trying using:
$altered_file_contents = eregi_replace("index2.php?someVar=SomeValue","somevar_somevalue.html", $file_contents);
Then I delete the file i opened, create a new one with the same name and write the $altered_file_contents into it and close it.
But when I open it and check the line numbers that should have been altered, they haven't been toutched at all, they still show the first link.
What am I doing wrong? Why aren't eregi_replace() doing what I think it should?
Please help...
/Aidal
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