Re: reg exp problems

From: Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 18:05:57 +0000
Subject: Re: reg exp problems
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On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 16:56:04 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, >I've never used a reg exp, but I was trying to do something simple, and I just can't >seem to do it :) > >I have a varible $fdata which contains the contents of a webpage, and I want to strip out the ><base> tag. > >I try: >$fdata = preg_replace("<base.*>","",$fdata); > >But its stripping out everything between the first "<base" and the last >">" on that line, instead of the of the ">" at the end of the base tag Try this (untested): $fdata = preg_replace ("/<base[^>]*>/","",$fdata); That should work.

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