I want to match any instance of [space][slash][space].
ie.
" / "
in a regex pattern.
I can't find the answer anywhere. What have I missed?
function madeby_remove_slash($text) {
preg_replace('/ \/ /', ' ', $text);
return $text;
}
echo madeby_remove_slash('This is the / text');
You don't assign the return value of the preg_replace to the $text variable in your function.
function madeby_remove_slash($text) {
return preg_replace('/ \/ /', ' ', $text); // return what the preg_replace returns
}
or if you want to replace a literal string you can use str_replace too.
str_replace(' / ', ' ', $text); // this works too
return $text, why not just return preg_replace.....?Try removing the enclosing forward-slashes from your regex. AFAIK they're not necessary in PHP, and it may well be thinking that you're asking it to match those as well.
