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in reply to dodgy sub

Just so you're aware, you can do something like
$string = str_replace(qr/(?:Hello)|(?:Hi)/, "Good-bye", "Hello My Name + is Elfyn");
qr creates something that allows you to embed regex operators within a string to be used in a regex. :-)

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Re: Re: dodgy sub
by emcb (Beadle) on Feb 27, 2002 at 15:45 UTC

    Thanks oh worthy monks.

    Im still learning regexps, and i thought my code was wrong. Oh it is :)

    Elfyn