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preg replace with newline

hello,
I have a little code that its working perfectly fine but I would like to add a little feature so it remove cows.net at the bottom
its not removing cows.net because it doesn't have any text at the end

<?php
$str = 'text here google.com text here
text here http://cows.net/search/query?123 text here
text here cats.net text here
text here bird.org, text here
text here cows.net
text here';

$result = preg_replace('/(?:cows\.com|cats\.net|bird\.org)[, .]/i', '', $str);

echo $result;
?>

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Terry Woods

$result = preg_replace('/(?:cows\.net|cats\.net|bird\.org)([, .]|$)/im', ' ', $str);

Works for me... note you had cows\.com rather than cows\.net in your pattern.

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ASKER

im talking about the cows.net on line 6

Terry Woods

Yes, my solution assumes that.

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ASKER

this is what im using

text here google.com text here
text here http://cows.net/search/query?123 text here
text here cats.net text here
text here bird.org, text here
text here cows.net
text here

after your code this is what I get

text here google.com text here
text here http://cows.net/search/query?123 text here
text here text here
text here text here
text here cows.net
text here

it should remove the last cows.net

Terry Woods

My solution worked for me:

<?php
$str = 'text here google.com text here
text here http://cows.net/search/query?123 text here
text here cats.net text here
text here bird.org, text here
text here cows.net
text here';

$result = preg_replace('/(?:cows\.net|cats\.net|bird\.org)([, .]|$)/im', ' ', $str);

echo $result."\n";
?>

Output:
text here google.com text here
text here http://cows.net/search/query?123 text here
text here  text here
text here   text here
text here
text here

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XK8ER

ASKER

im not getting the same results.. maybe because I am using PHP v5.3.8?

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Terry Woods

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