eregi_replace: why doesn´t this work?

Hi!

I try to:

function do_bug_link($in)
{

return eregi_replace("\!([0-9]+)","<a
href='bug.php?op=show&bugid=\\1'>Bug \\1</a>",$in);
}

which should substitue all occurences in my $in like the following:

Blah text !123 blah text => Blah text <a
href='bug.php?op=show&bugid=123'>Bug 123</a> blah text

it works, partially....

output is:
Blah text <a href='bug.php?op=show&bugid=123'>Bug <a
href='/bug.php?op=show&bugid=123'>123</a></a>

why is this called recursively at the second \\1 ???


TIA,

F. Leeber

"Florian Leeber" <fleeber@ghl.at> schreef in bericht
news:vZpCb.27113$dt3.13388@news.chello.at...
>
> it works, partially....
>
> output is:
> Blah text <a href='bug.php?op=show&bugid=123'>Bug <a
> href='/bug.php?op=show&bugid=123'>123</a></a>
>
> why is this called recursively at the second \\1 ???
>

Not sure what you are passing the function as an argument, but the following
works for me:

function do_bug_link($in) {
return eregi_replace(
"\!([0-9]+)",
"<a href='bug.php?op=show&bugid=\\1'>Bug \\1</a>",
$in
);
}

echo do_bug_link("Blah text !123 blah text");


JW