On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:06, Jason Morehouse wrote: > Hello, > > I normally can take a bit of regex fun, but not this time. > > 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. > interesting. I usually try to specifically describe in english what I am looking for. in your case, I would say a string that begins with < followed by zero or more spaces followed by a b or a B followed by zero or more spaces followed by zero or more anything followed by > /<\s*[bB]\s*.*>/ or perhaps it is enough to say match a < followed by 0 or more spaces followed by a b or a B and not followed by a r or a R and followed by zero or more anything followed by > /<\s*[bB][^rR].*>/ These are untested but should be close and can be used in preg* functions. the greedy matching might grab too much stuff and I always forget how to do that when I hit it. try them, let us see the results and we can get there Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
