From: "Dillon, John" <JDillon@cantor.co.uk>
> strip_tags() is used to remove HTML tags, eg for showing text on the
browser
> and then sending it by plain text email or storing in the db. As a matter
> of interest, how is this done using ereg_replace. I thought this would
work
> ^<.*>$, that is being with < and any number of single characters ending
with
> >. Didn't seem to work - why?
Because you have ^ and $ (beginning of string and end of string), you're
saying the entire string must be between < and > in order for a match to
occur.
Take them out and make sure you're not being "greedy", i.e. "this <tag> and
that <tag> are left" being reduced to "this are left".
ereg_replace('<[^>]*>','',$string);
or
preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/','',$string);
should work.
---John Holmes...
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