Ereg replace.

[eluser]Young Caveman[/eluser]
Hi. :-)
I looked for this on the web but there was not anything which I can understand
I have to use ereg_replace function in my app, but ereg syntax is very hard to understand. You all can try to explain me with simple words? Thank you.

Ps. Just to inform you: i have to replace every string which looks like this: "-" anthing "-" to: "<div>anything</div>".

Then

Code:

-hello-

would become

Code:

<div>hello</div>

I apologize but I never used this function and it's a bit complicated
Thanks in advance.

Don ~ Albé

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]

Code:

preg_replace('/-(.?)-/','<div>$1</div>',$str);

[eluser]Sam Dark[/eluser]

Code:

$str = preg_replace('~-([^-]+)-~', '<div>$1</div>', $str);

or

Code:

$str = preg_replace('~-(.+?)-~', '<div>$1</div>', $str);

[eluser]Young Caveman[/eluser]
Thank you. :-)