Re: strings

* Thus wrote Anthony Ritter (tony@gonefishingguideservice.com): > Curt Zirzow wrote in message: > > > This exact thing was talked about earlier today, with the subject > > 'Using eregi_replace()'. > ........................ > > Right. > > However, I've tried using the following code in which the text from the URL > is printed out completely and then I change the variable from $contents to > $text and using the line with preg_replace(), it still outputs the complete > text without the pattern match. hm.. I sort of misunderstood, preg_replace isn't what you need. use preg_match instead. I did some testing you can see the code and results here: http://zirzow.dyndns.org/html/php/tests/preg/parse_doc.php > $newtext= preg_replace("!.*?(REGIONAL.*YORK).*!","$1",$text); btw, there these should be single quotes ~~~~~~~~~~^ ^ or "\$1" so php doesn't expand the variable (even though its an illagal php var name.) HTH, Curt -- "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."