Re: help with preg_replace only part of the string

Replace the middle (.*) with ([^<]*). This tells the regex engine to ignore new opening tags. Cheers, David Georgi Ivanov wrote: > Hi, > I want to replace the content of html links : <a href="foo" > name="bla">REPLACETHIS</a>. > > $html=preg_replace("/(<a.*name=.*>)(.*)<\/a>/isU",$link,$html,1); > This generally works but removes <a>,</a> tags too. > How to make it work without removing anything else than (.*) in the middle of > <a>.*</a> > > Thanks in advance. > -- David Grant http://www.grant.org.uk/