Re: strip comments from HTML?

Justin -- ..and then Justin French said... % % Hi, Hi! % % This isn't working: % $text = preg_replace('/<!--(.*)-->/','',$text); % % Can someone advise what characters I need to escape, or whatever to get % it going? Well, what do you want it to do? On my system that properly replaces the entire commented string with nothing. An example which puts something else there instead: <?php $text = "<body>\n<h1>Hi</h1>\n<!-- foo --></body>\n" ; $text = preg_replace('/<!--(.*)-->/','blah',$text) ; print "text is .$text.\n"; ?> This yields text is .<body> <h1>Hi</h1> blah</body> . as expected. Note that since you're just replacing the entire comment with '' you needn't bother with the () around whatever may be in the middle, too. % % TIA % % --- % Justin French % http://indent.com.au HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G davidtg@justpickone.org http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!