Re: Regex Help

<?php $q = "test <OPTION VALUE=\"test\">test</OPTION> test"; ereg("(.*)(<OPTION.*OPTION>)(.*)",$q,$ar); $t = "anotherword".$ar[2]."anotherword"; print $t; ?> outputs: anotherword<OPTION VALUE="test">test</OPTION>anotherword ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim" <user@lifeforjesus.org> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Regex Help I'm sorry, I accidentally left the slashes on my second example. My original message should read: Could someone show me how to use preg_replace to change this: test <OPTION VALUE="test">test</OPTION> test into: anotherword <OPTION VALUE="test">test</OPTION> anotherword Note that what I want to accomplish is to change 'test' into 'anotherword' only if it is not within the option tag. Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Emery" <remery@emeryloftus.com> To: "Jim" <user@lifeforjesus.org>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Regex Help > addslashes() > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim" <user@lifeforjesus.org> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:26 AM > Subject: [PHP] Regex Help > > > Could someone show me how to use preg_replace to change this: > > test <OPTION VALUE="test">test</OPTION> test > > into: > > anotherword <OPTION VALUE=\"test\">test</OPTION> anotherword > > basically, I want to change a value only if it is not in an option > tag..... > > I also want to account for situations like : > > test, something <OPTION VALUE="test">test</OPTION> test! > > My thoughts were to do the replace if the word (test) was not > surrounded by quotes or surrounded by greater/less than symbols. I > just have no idea how to formulate that with regex. > > Please help! Thanks. > > -- > 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