Re: regular expressions php/perl/actionscript

Thanks for the suggestions. Between the online manual and the books I have I think I'll get there eventually. Sometimes my logic just sux. What I needed to do was have the user fill out a form and if they make changes to the XML file I would update the file. So, my long way around was to go through the old XML file and create a string variable for every possible form field. Then I would compare the /bgClrOld/ to /bgClr/ and if they were different I would then update the file with an ereg_replace. After some poking around, this seems to be the way to go. Only if the field is not empty so I change it if ($bgClr !=""){ $bgClr="xxxxxx"; } I still have some work to do, but ...