Re: anchr tag replace

Thanks SOO much. It works flawlessly. I find it scary that there are people out there who do regular expressions off the top of their heads. Anyway, thanks alot, -Ethan Nelson, Modulus, LLC "Philip Hallstrom" <php@philip.pjkh.com> wrote in message news:20050428134450.D87918@wolf.pjkh.com... > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, php wrote: > >> Its a long story, but basically, theres some code we cannot get around >> that >> is taking anchor tags such as <a href="#sat"> and turning them into <a >> >> href="http://host.com/folder/file.html?var=var&var2=var2#sat>. >> >> I need to undo this action with a pattern match on a large body of >> content >> with "". Can this be done. Here are further details: >> >> I need a regular expression that will recognize the following where >> #anchor >> can be anything such as #sat or #sunday or #lastpage: >> >> <a*href="http://*#anchor"*> >> >> And turn it into this: >> >> <a*href="#anchor"*> >> >> What I am doing is removing the >> http://host/.../.../file.html?variable&variable that >> immediately precedes >> the #anchor. > > Hmm... > > $str = > ereg_replace('<(a[^>]*href=")http://[^#]*(#[^"]*")>', > '<$1$2>', > $str); > > Completely untested and assumes lowercase tags and the use of double > quotes and that a single <a href> tag fits on a single line... > > But it's a start. > > -philip