Hi, Use strip_tags() instead of regex. http://www.php-center.de/en-html-manual/function.strip-tags.html Greetings Mirco -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: php [mailto:silviumaghear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Februar 2005 09:25 An: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: regular expresion I want to parse a html file for instance <body> <p>aaa jjjj mmmm dddd yyyy ssss</p> <b>aaa hhh mmmm dddd yyyy ssss</b> <p>aaa eee mmmm dddd yyyy ssss</p> <i>aaa kkkk mmmm dddd yyyy ssss</i> </body> and I want to create a regular expresion wich is able to extract entire text from enclosed tags WITHOUT a particular word for example eee final I want to obtain this result aaa jjjj mmmm dddd yyyy ssss aaa hhh mmmm dddd yyyy ssss aaa kkkk mmmm dddd yyyy ssss Any solution? thank you Silviu -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php