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

It's still not working. I'm using the pattern ([^<foo>]*) and I'm getting the first match correct, but it's not getting all the other matches. Thanks, Luiz Vitor ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Toby Dacre" <Toby@dacre.net> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:06 AM > Subject: Re: [PHP] Search a string between <foo></foo> > > > .* in your patten will match everything It's greedy like perl (unless you > compiled php not to be) > > add a ? and it will make it none greedy > > ^[<foo>]* will not work ^ needs to be in [] to mean not else it means > start of string > > > > ""Luiz Vitor"" <lvdamin@terra.com.br> wrote in message > > news:011201c0d87d$57f8ab00$4600a8c0@vilagenet.com.br... > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > >