Re: The difference between ereg and preg?

Dave M G wrote: > 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); does this one work?: preg_replace('#^<\!DOCTYPE(.*)<ul[^>]*>#is', '', $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 >