Re: Re: Removing link on the fly, but leave link text

On Aug 31, 2010, at 16:26, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 17:15 -0300, Jo?o C?ndido de Souza Neto wrote: > >> Theres an eror. >> >> The correct is: >> >> $pattern = array( >> "/<a [^>]>/", >> "/</a>/" >> ); >> >> $text = preg_replace($pattern, "", $text); >> >> >> -- >> Joo Cndido de Souza Neto >> >> ""Joo Cndido de Souza Neto"" <joao@consultorweb.cnt.br> escreveu >> na >> mensagem news:D0.73.48953.EE16D7C4@pb1.pair.com... >>> Try this: >>> >>> $pattern = array( >>> "/<a [^>]/", >>> "/</a>/" >>> ); >>> >>> preg_replace($pattern, "", $text); >>> >>> -- >>> Joo Cndido de Souza Neto >>> >>> "Karl DeSaulniers" <karl@designdrumm.com> escreveu na mensagem >>> >>> news:007BC8E1-B2C8-4DD5-9D18-EB07B0D55C0E@designdrumm.com... >>>> Hi, >>>> Say I have some text. >>>> >>>> $text = 'You can logon here: <a href="�i�a���j�u�r� >>>> http://website.com/shop/ >>>> >>>> index.php?username='.$username.'">http://website.com/shop/index.php? >>>> username='.$username.'</a>. This link will take you to your web >>>> browser to login.'.$eol; >>>> >>>> I want to be able to strip the "<a >>>> href="http://website.com/shop/ >>>> index.php?username='.$username.'">" and </a>. >>>> Leaving just the >>>> http://website.com/shop/index.php?username='. >>>> $username.' text, so it would end up like. >>>> >>>> >>>> $text = 'You can logon here: >>>> http://website.com/shop/index.php? >>>> username='.$username.'. This link will take you to your web browser >>>> to login.'.$eol; >>>> >>>> I have tried MANY different ways and have no success. >>>> Can anyone help me? >>>> TIA >>>> >>>> >>>> Karl DeSaulniers >>>> Design Drumm >>>> http://designdrumm.com >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > Regular expressions are evil when used like this. Consider the following > valid HTML: > > <a href="math_operators.php" title="The > Operator">The &gt; > Operator</a> > > The HTML is perfectly valid, but the regex will break because it "see's" > the end of the tag prematurely from the > inside the title attribute > value. > > However, if the HTML is going to be a very small subset in which you > will always know this sort of thing won't happen, then you could use the > regex. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > Karl, Is this for an email? Bastien Sent from my iPod