Replace Disp "Text" with "Text"_ using preg_replace

[qureshi]

Hi there,

 

I have been trying to solve this myself, but have had no luck.

 

I have this:

Disp "Weight:"
Disp X/Y

 

But I want to transform it to:

 

"Weight:"_
X/Y_

 

Using this:

preg_replace("/Disp(.*?)/i","$1_",$string)

 

But it doesn't work. Instead I get:

 

_ "Weight:"
_ X/Y

 

I'm running php 5.3 on windows. Latest XAMPP.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Nadeem

[premiso]

preg_replace("/Disp(.*)/i","$1_",$string)

 

Should work.

[qureshi]

Hi there,

 

No change. Same exact result.

 

Regards,

 

Nadeem

[premiso]

Ran this:

<?php
$string = 'Disp "Weight:"
Disp X/Y';

echo preg_replace("/Disp(.*)/i","$1_",$string);
?>

 

Got this:

"Weight:"_
X/Y_

 

You need to check your code and make sure you are updating the right file etc.

[qureshi]

Hi,

 

Thanks for your code. It works. How do I get the Regex to not include newline as a part of $1 ?

 

Nadeem

 

 

[premiso]

Why not just do a str_replace on the string before or after to remove the newlines?

 

echo str_replace("\n", "", preg_replace("/Disp(.*)/i","$1_",$string));

 

Simplistic as that.

[salathe]

Be aware that given the example string, there will be Carriage Return (\r or ASCII 13) characters left floating around since the Windows-style line ending (\r\n) is used.

[premiso]

Be aware that given the example string, there will be Carriage Return (\r or ASCII 13) characters left floating around since the Windows-style line ending (\r\n) is used.

 

Oh..

echo str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), "", preg_replace("/Disp(.*)/i","$1_",$string));

 

Should sort it.