Switching from ereg_replace to preg_replace

Question

I have an application that is now running on PHP 5.3 that was originally developed in a previous version. I receive an eror stating:

Function ereg_replace() is deprecated

referring to the following snippet:

<?php $summary = ereg_replace("<[^>]*>","", $item['item_description'])?>

What changes to the above snippet are required to use preg_replace()?

* [converting ereg to preg (missing regex delimiters)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6270004/converting-ereg-expressions-to-preg) — mario, Jan 06 '12 at 19:52

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '12 at 19:47

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All you need to do is use the function preg_replace() and put delimiters around the expression:

$summary = preg_replace("/<[^>]*>/","", $item['item_description']);

answered Jan 06 '12 at 19:47

Tim Cooper

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 06 '12 at 20:20

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And for eregi_replace use:

$summary = preg_replace("/<[^>]*>/i","", $item['item_description']);

Consider the i modifier.

answered Jan 06 '12 at 20:20

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