Re: stripping html tags

On Sun, June 5, 2005 7:05 am, Dotan Cohen said: > I took this example from php.net, but can't figure out where I went > wrong. Why does this: > $text = preg_replace("/<head(.|\s)*?>(.|\s)*?<\/head>/i" , "" , > $text); > > throw this error: > syntax error at line 265, column 39: > $text = preg_replace("/<head(.|\s)*?>(.|\s)*?<\/head>/i" , "" > , $text); > ======================================^ > > It seems to be pointing to the 'e' is 'head'. Why? Thanks. The pointing is often "off" by a few chars... For starters, you're not correctly using \, imho. \ is special in PHP strings. \ is ALSO special in RegEx. So your \s should be \\s, in case PHP makes \s special someday. I think the ?> in there will also mess you up, maybe, as that ends PHP parsing... Though it SHOULD be kosher inside a string... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm