preg_replace question

[leadZERO]

I'm trying to replace strings like "00.jpg" with "00thumb.gif"

Why is the statement:
preg_replace( "/(\d+)\.\w{3,4}$/", "\\1thumb\.gif", $thumbimage );

not working?

[Zef Hemel]

Don't know the difference between ereg_replace and preg_replace, but I think you can leave the slashes alone, so
preg_replace( "^(\d+)\.\w{3,4}$", "\\1thumb\.gif", $thumbimage );

Might work

[Rickard]

Zef, I didn't expect to see you hanging around here and helping out. How are things going with Yabb 2? Will it be PHP-based?

[JohnM]

$newfilename = preg_replace( "/(\\d+)\\.\\w{3,4}\$/", "\\1thumb\\.gif", $thumbimage );

[Zef Hemel]

No, YaBB 2 will be perl based. But I like php more actually, I'm writing a new product using it.

[Rickard]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Perl is very powerful and versatile, but I never really could get used to the syntax.

[JohnM]

I know a fair bit of perl...

[Zef Hemel]

Oh, well I know far more perl than php. But php has some nice features (like good mysql support), perl doesn't have (by default).