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[The Rain Maker]

On Sunday, Jan 26, 2003, at 03:01 America/New_York, Jerry Kapron wrote:

> I'm trying to get rid of a specific name=value pair from a URL (query
> string).
> 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
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