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Is this preg_replace correct ?

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Dec 18.2013

Hi,

The HTML5 validator doesn’t like ‘&’ in the urls it wants ‘&’
so I am trying to change them before they get output from the server.

I can not stop users from pasting if urls with ‘&’ in them so I just want to swap them out.

Because I only want to change ‘&’ that are in urls – not anywhere else
I need to match a pattern.

So I have my preg_replace like this:

$text= preg_replace(“/[href(.+?)][&](.+?)/s”,’href’.$1.’&’.$2,$text);

Dunno why – just doesn’t look right 😮

Hopefully I will get the hang of this one day !! ?

Thanks.

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@unasAquilaDec 21.2013 — wouldn't str_replace Be a lot easier?

[code=php]
str_replace('&', '&', 'http://www.example.com/search.php?query=Hello&world&this&is&a&test');
[/code]
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@chrisranjanaDec 21.2013 — 
Dunno why - just doesn't look right :o


Hopefully I will get the hang of this one day !! ?


Thanks.[/QUOTE]

You could test your regular expression online using testers like http://gskinner.com/RegExr/
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