Re: Search a string between <foo></foo>

The problem is that it matches the first foo with the first /foo and the second foo witht eh /foo ( andmatches those properly) but it also matches the first foo with the second /foo (thisnk of the logic of the regex). What you need to do is rather than specify any character (.*) specify any character which is not <foo> ie something like ^[<foo>]* On Wed, 9 May 2001, Luiz Vitor wrote: > Hi... > > I have a text and, some words of the text have the tags <url></url> between them. > What i'm trying to do is to replace the word between that tags for a url, wich I'll > search them in a database and convert to a url. > > It's working fine when I have only one <url></url>, but when there are more > than one, the script converts all the text between the first <foo></foo> and the last > <foo></foo>. > > I'm using this code: > > if (eregi("<foo>(.*)</foo>", $string, $result)) { > $string = str_replace($result[1], '<a > href="'.$result[1].'">'.$result[1].'</a>', $string); > } > > > Someone knows what I have to do to put it to work??? > > > Thanks in advance. > > Luiz Vitor > Brazil >