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Inigoesdr · 01-31-2009, 08:28 PM

No, you can't use backreferences with replace. What you could do is loop through the rows, match/replace your string with a regular expression(preg_replace()), and update the row.

01-31-2009, 08:28 PM	PM User \| #4
Inigoesdr Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 3,601 Thanks: 2 Thanked 397 Times in 390 Posts	No, you can't use backreferences with replace. What you could do is loop through the rows, match/replace your string with a regular expression(preg_replace()), and update the row.