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[Jerry Kapron]

>On Sunday, Jan 26, 2003, at 03:01 Jerry Kapron wrote:
>> I solved this with these 3 lines of code:
>>
>>    $uri = ereg_replace('&?baked=[^&]*','',$uri);     // ? == {,1}
>>    $uri = ereg_replace('\\?&','?',$uri);
>>    $uri = ereg_replace('\\?$','',$uri);
>>
>> I was just wondering wether there is a shorter way (one preg_replace()
>> perhaps?).
>
>Yup, there sure is...
>
>$uri = preg_replace("/[?&]baked=[^&]+/", '', $uri);
>
>And you are good to go.
>
>r

Ray,
This wouldn't work.  Note that if baked=any_value was the first of many
name=value pairs in a query string, your preg_replace() would remove the '?'
(that's not good).

Jerry