(never mind) Re: [Mediawiki-l] escaping "*" character in regex

[=James Birkholz=]

I could have sworn that I had tried this before and it didn't work, but 
this seems to be working now:
         $output =  ereg_replace("z\*","ż", $output);

Yay!

James

At 01:37 AM 1/23/05, =James Birkholz= wrote:
>I don't use regexp often enough, and I'm not finding the answer in my 
>reference books.
>
>I need to to replace any occurance of the chars "Z*" or "z*" with the html 
>encoding text as below:
>         $output =  ereg_replace("z*","ż", $output);
>
>how do I get the "*" to be treated as a literal character, instead of "any 
>number of occurances" designator?