PHP Regular Expression ( replace text )

Question

HI Guys why doesnt this reg.exp work ? The 'TEST' should be replaced with XXX ?

<?php
$Rules = array ('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si',   
            '@(TEST);+@e');
$Replace = array ('',       
              'XXX'
              );

        $data ="this is a TEST  string";
        $data =  preg_replace($Rules,   $Replace,$data);
        echo  $data;

?>

Answer 1

Your regex is (TEST);+ which matches the lister string TEST followed by one or more of + .

Since there are no ; in your string $data , the match never happens.