No I didn't know that \w was the same. What do you mean by proper
capturing. I really am a 2 year old when it comes to RE stuff.

Thanks!

On Oct 29, 10:04 pm, "Chung Leong" <chernyshev...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> cendrizzi wrote:
> > I have no idea where to get help on RE stuff. Since it's for a PHP app
> > I thought I would ask here to see if there was some RE pros. Basically
> > I'm doing some template stuff and I wanted to use a
> > preg_replace_callback function to call another function when the
> > criteria of the RE expression is matched but have no idea how to
> > accomplish it.
>
> > So I start with this:
> > /<(input|select|textarea)[^>]*name\s*\=\s*\"[_a-zA-Z0-9\s]*\"[^>]*>/
>
> > but need to modify it so it only matches if it has '{' characters in
> > the name but to not match if it does not.
>
> > So this would not match:
> > <input name="test">
>
> > But this would match:
> > <input name="test{0}">
>
> > Thanks much in advance.Well, just change the [_a-zA-Z0-9\s]* part to [\w\s]*{[\w\s]*}. Of
> course, you'll need to do proper capturing in order to form the
> replacement string.
>
> \w is equivalent to [_a-zA-Z0-9] by the way.