ereg_replace()

ereg_replace - Replace regular expression

Syntax

string ereg_replace (string $pattern, string $replacement, string $string)

Arguments

• pattern - A POSIX extended regular expression.
• replacement - If pattern contains parenthesized substrings, replacement may contain substrings of the form \\ digit, which will be replaced by the text matching the digit\'th parenthesized substring; \\0will produce the entire contents of string. Up to nine substrings may be used. Parentheses may be nested, in which case they are counted by the opening parenthesis.
• string - The input string.

Description

This function scans string for matches to pattern, then replaces the matched text with replacement.

Version

PHP 4, 5

Return value

The modified string is returned. If no matches are found in string, then it will be returned unchanged.