[pmwiki-devel] $12.50 -> .50 var problem

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, The Editor wrote:

> The following is causing me huge problems.  Been working on it for
> hours--and seem to have finally narrowed it down to here...
>
> if (strpos($newpage[text], "(:$ff: ") == true) $newpage['text'] =  preg_replace(
>           '/\\(:'.$ff.': (.*?):\\)/s',  "(:$ff: $v:)",  $newpage['text'], 1);
>
> It's part of a routine that checks to tell if a certain (hidden) text
> variable exists and if it does, it replaces the current value with the
> new value ($v).
>
> All works fine generally--except when $v has a $ in it it thinks its a 
> variable that doesn't exist.  So $12.50 gets changed to .50.  And that 
> throws me off.

Not sure if it'll help, but try

  if (strpos($newpage[text], "(:$ff: ") == true)
    $newpage['text'] =
       preg_replace('/\\(:'.$ff.': (.*?):\\)/s',  "(:$ff: ".$v.":)",
                    $newpage['text'], 1);

/C

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr