Re: extract/replace the content of html pages

>I have a folder full of html pages that I need to extract the content >from. They all have <!-- content start --> and <!--content end --> >comment tags surrounding the content. I need an easy way (not one at a >time) to extract that content and place it in a new template. > >Any ideas are appreciated. Im assuming it will have to be some sort of >strpos and substr thing, but I'm not sure how to automate my process You want to get rid of the comments, or preserve the comments? If the former, a simple preg_replace() will help. See the documentation here: http://php.net/preg_replace, http://php.net/pcre.pattern.syntax, and http://php.net/pcre.pattern.modifiers. You will search for pieces of text bounded by '<!--' and '-->' that can span multiple lines. You will also want to set the not-greedy modifier, so you don't clobber things like: '<!-- comment -->not a comment<!-- comment -->'. If the latter, you can use the third argument to preg_match_all() to save above-matching comments strings into an array. See the documentation here: http://php.net/preg-match-all. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html