<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >regex_replace</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Smarty Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Variable Modifiers" HREF="language.modifiers.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="nl2br" HREF="language.modifier.nl2br.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="replace" HREF="language.modifier.replace.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Smarty Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.modifier.nl2br.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 5. Variable Modifiers</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.modifier.replace.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="language.modifier.regex.replace" ></A >regex_replace</H1 ><P > A regular expression search and replace on a variable. Use the <A HREF="http://php.net/preg_replace" TARGET="_top" > <TT CLASS="varname" >preg_replace()</TT ></A > syntax from the PHP manual. </P ><DIV CLASS="informaltable" ><A NAME="AEN1104" ></A ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="1" CLASS="CALSTABLE" ><THEAD ><TR ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Parameter Position</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Type</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Required</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Default</TH ><TH WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Description</TH ></TR ></THEAD ><TBODY ><TR ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >1</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >string</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Yes</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ><SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="emphasis" >n/a</I ></SPAN ></TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >This is the regular expression to be replaced.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >2</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >string</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >Yes</TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="MIDDLE" ><SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="emphasis" >n/a</I ></SPAN ></TD ><TD WIDTH="20%" ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="MIDDLE" >This is the string of text to replace with.</TD ></TR ></TBODY ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN1133" ></A ><P ><B >Example 5-15. regex_replace</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$smarty</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">assign</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'articleTitle'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Infertility unlikely to\nbe passed on, experts say."</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Where template is: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" >{* replace each carriage return, tab and new line with a space *} {$articleTitle} {$articleTitle|regex_replace:"/[\r\t\n]/":" "}</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Will output: </P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="screen" >Infertility unlikely to be passed on, experts say. Infertility unlikely to be passed on, experts say.</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > See also <A HREF="language.modifier.replace.html" > <TT CLASS="varname" >replace</TT ></A > and <A HREF="language.modifier.escape.html" ><TT CLASS="varname" >escape</TT ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.modifier.nl2br.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.modifier.replace.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >nl2br</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.modifiers.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >replace</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >