Re: The difference between ereg and preg?

Chris, Ligaya, Dave, Thank you for responding. I understand the difference in principle between ereg and preg much better now. Chris wrote:

! in perl regular expressions means "not" so you need to escape it: \! Still, when including that escape character, the following preg expression does not find any matching text:

preg_replace("/<\!DOCTYPE(.*)<ul>/", "", $htmlPage); Whereas this ereg expression does find a match: ereg_replace("<!DOCTYPE(.*)<ul>", "", $htmlPage); What do I need to do to make the preg expression succeed just as the ereg expression does? Thank you for your time and advice. -- Dave M G