http://newsourcemedia.com/blog Focused on Interactive Design, Development and Marketing Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:30:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/php-replace-only-first-occurrence-of-a-string-match/ http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/php-replace-only-first-occurrence-of-a-string-match/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 1999 06:00:00 +0000 admin http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/1969/12/31/php-replace-only-first-occurrence-of-a-string-match/ Continue reading →]]> Say you wanted to only replace the first occurrence of a string match instead of all occurrences You would use php preg_replace function to do the trick. The code is below: <? $var = 'abcdef abcdef abcdef'; // pattern, replacement, string, limit echo preg_replace('/abc/', '123', $var, 1); // outputs '123def abcdef abcdef' ?> Just incase you wanted to still match all occurrences, just use the php function erag_replace. The code is below: <? $var = 'abcdef abcdef abcdef'; // pattern, replacement, string echo ereg_replace('abc', '123', $var); // outputs '123def 123def 123def' ?> ]]> http://newsourcemedia.com/blog/php-replace-only-first-occurrence-of-a-string-match/feed/ 11