Re: Re: regular expressions

On Sunday 19 November 2006 23:25, Al wrote: > Get "Sams, Teach yourself Regular Expressions" It's a great little, simple > book. I'll look that one up. Thank you =) > > Then get the Regex Coach. Google to find it. It's free, works great and is > super for learning regex And this one, I'm on right now. =) also thanks. > > Børge Holen wrote: > > Ok I seem to need to learn regular expressions more than anything. > > > > this is what im working on: > > > > ["desc"] = " <c> FFFFFF topic <c> 999999 rest of the text > > ", > > > > $string = preg_replace("/<c>\s\w[0-9A-F]+/","",$string); > > > > prints out: topic rest of the text ( with double spaces :(, I > > thought \s would fix that ) > > > > however how would I go on this: > > > > <font color="colorcode">topic</font> > > <font color="colorcode">rest of thetext</font> > > > > Almost anything I do with the above statement either throws me off with a > > modifier error or prints out what it should not > > > > > > --- > > Børge > > Kennel Arivene > > http://www.arivene.net > > --- -- --- Børge Kennel Arivene http://www.arivene.net ---