preg reg help

Hi all,

I'm wanting to replace all the "translation.asp?tranword=" in a string. I have this but it is currently not replacing it. String:

<a href='translation.asp?tranword=dove'>dove</a><br><a href='translation.asp?tranword=diver'>diver</a><br><a href='translation.asp?tranword=dive'>dive</a><br><a href='translation.asp?tranword=Dave'>Dave</a><br></td><td><a href='translation.asp?tranword=drover'>drover</a>

What i have:

$content = preg_replace('/translation.asp?tranword=/i', 'wordreference.php?word=', $content);

Can anyone help?

Jake

You need to escape the special characters in there:

$content = preg_replace('/translation\.asp\?tranword=/i', 'wordreference.php?word=', $content);

Also, it looks like in this case that you don't even need to use a regex, but rather a simple string function that will be much faster:

$content = str_ireplace('translation.asp?tranword=', 'wordreference.php?word=', $content);