On Friday 14 January 2005 05:06, Jason Morehouse wrote: > Simple enough, in theory... I need to match (count) all of the bold tags > in a string, including ones with embedded styles (or whatever else can > go in there). <b> and <b style="color:red">. My attempts keep matching > <br> as well. Quick-n-dirty: preg_match_all('/(<b>|<b\s+.*>)/iU', $doo, $match); Feel free to extend to check for closing tags :) -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ New Year Resolution: Ignore top posted posts -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php