Re: [PHP] vertical word match SOLUTION

Hi Joe: On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:50:53PM -0500, 'Joe Rice' wrote: > > $answer = "hello\na\np\np\nl\ne\n"; /*from textarea in form*/ > /* replace all whitespace and newlines with nothing */ > $tempanswer = preg_replace("/\s*|\n*/","",$answer); Easier: $tempanswer = preg_replace('/\s/', '', $

RE: [PHP] vertical word match

try changing the "+"'s with "*"'s + = 1 or more * = 0 or more -Original Message- From: Joe Rice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] vertical word match hello, any regex gurus? i'm try

[PHP] vertical word match

hello, any regex gurus? i'm trying to match words put into a that are in the form of a\np\np\l\e or any combination of new lines in between, before or after. $answer = "hello\na\np\np\nl\ne\n"; /*from textarea in form*/ $word = "apple"; $word = preg_replace("/(.)/","(.?|\s+|\n+|)$1(.?|\s+|\n+