Re: ? for the Reg Ex people

On Wednesday 07 February 2001 21:48, Jason Bryner wrote: > I'm making a small script that imports HTML pages and I need to do > some string replacement. I need to replace add a url to all the 'HREF' > links and images, but if someone could just give me an example of how > to replace and append the HREF part, I think I can figure it out. It > needs to find all the variations of HREF, such as 'HREF = "', href="', > 'href =', etc. So it > needs to be space and capitalization carefree. THANKS TO ANYONE > WHO HELPS!!! $replaced = preg_replace ('/(href\s*=\s*(\'|\"))(.*?)(\\2)/i', "\\1\\3${urladdition}\\2", $matches); On a match, $matches [0] will contain the entire pattern, $matches [1] the first subpattern (everything from href to the opening quote), $matches [2] the opening quote char and $matches [3] the URL. -- Christian Reiniger LGDC Webmaster (http://sunsite.dk/lgdc/) "These are the people who proudly call themselves "hackers" -- not as the term is now abused by journalists to mean a computer criminal, but in its true and original sense of an enthusiast, an artist, a tinkerer, a problem solver, an expert." - ESR