Dave M G wrote:
> Chris, Ligaya, Dave,
>
> Thank you for responding. I understand the difference in principle
> between ereg and preg much better now.
>
> Chris wrote:
>> ! in perl regular expressions means "not" so you need to escape it:
>> \!
> Still, when including that escape character, the following preg
> expression does not find any matching text:
> preg_replace("/<\!DOCTYPE(.*)<ul>/", "", $htmlPage);
does this one work?:
preg_replace('#^<\!DOCTYPE(.*)<ul[^>]*>#is', '', $htmlPage);
>
> Whereas this ereg expression does find a match:
> ereg_replace("<!DOCTYPE(.*)<ul>", "", $htmlPage);
>
> What do I need to do to make the preg expression succeed just as the
> ereg expression does?
>
> Thank you for your time and advice.
>
> --
> Dave M G
>
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