On 6/6/05, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, June 5, 2005 7:05 am, Dotan Cohen said:
> > I took this example from php.net, but can't figure out where I went
> > wrong. Why does this:
> > $text = preg_replace("/<head(.|\s)*?>(.|\s)*?<\/head>/i" , "" , $text);
> >
> > throw this error:
> > syntax error at line 265, column 39:
> > $text = preg_replace("/<head(.|\s)*?>(.|\s)*?<\/head>/i" , "" , $text);
> > ======================================^
> >
> > It seems to be pointing to the 'e' is 'head'. Why? Thanks.
>
> The pointing is often "off" by a few chars...
>
> For starters, you're not correctly using \, imho.
>
> \ is special in PHP strings.
> \ is ALSO special in RegEx.
>
> So your \s should be \\s, in case PHP makes \s special someday.
>
> I think the ?> in there will also mess you up, maybe, as that ends PHP
> parsing... Though it SHOULD be kosher inside a string...
>
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Could well be- I certainly didn't come up with that regex myself! What
would you recommend to remove any tag, and the code enclosed? For
instance: "I love my <tag>big</tag> brother" would become "I love my
brother"?
Dotan
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