Re: copy ...

I have a strong feeling that POSIX regexs cannot do multiline, try using perl-compatible, or make a loop to read the textarea content line by line John Taylor-Johnston wrote:

I need to process the contents of <textarea name="textarea"> <textarea name="textarea">SU: something ... blah blah¶ TI: Title ... asasa asasas asas¶ AU: author field ... asasasas¶ </textarea> I want to filter $textarea. I need to change my code below to grab everything between "TI:" and "¶", but not including "¶" : I have this code. --------snip------------ filter_strings("TI: ", $textarea) function filter_strings($tofilter,$line){ if(eregi('^'.$tofilter.' (.*)$',$line,$m)) {

       $filtered=$m[1];
       return $filtered;
    }

} -- John Taylor-Johnston ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Université de Sherbrooke: http://compcanlit.ca/