RE: [PHP] another REGEX question

hahah that had two interesting effects the first was that it left the < > and the second was that it turned off all the highlighting in my editor due to the "?>" any idea how to include the braces in the match and perhaps not using the ?> string for the sake of convenience :) Julian 8/2/01 5:19:03 PM, "Jack Dempsey" <dabigdemp@hotmail.com> wrote: >Try >$str = preg_replace("<p.*?>", " ",$str); > >jack > >-----Original Message----- >From: Julian Simpson [mailto:frithj@home.com] >Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 5:16 PM >To: php-general@lists.php.net >Subject: [PHP] another REGEX question > >I have a string can look like either of the following: ><p>some stuff</p> ><p align = "left">some stuff</p> > >I want to use eregi_replace to take out the first p tag whether it be ><p> or <p align......> with a space > >I assumed that $str = eregi_replace ("<p.*>", " ",$str); >but it matches the entire string and thus turns the whole string into >one space. >aparently regex will match the biggest possible match rather than the >smallest >my question is how do i get it to match the smallest. > >thanx in advance.. > >Julian > > >-- >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 > >