Re: Quick regular expressions question / preg_replace

That's an idea but it would delete the carriage return before it which I don't want to happen. I've tried preg_replace("/^<html>\r\n/", '', $string) + quite a few other variations but no luck :-(. Argh! David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bogdan Stancescu" <mgv@fx.ro> To: "David Yee" <david@coolcomputing.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Quick regular expressions question / preg_replace > I suck big time at regular expressions, but have you tried > str_replace("\r\n<html>\r\n", '', $string); ? > > Bogdan > > David Yee wrote: > > > Hi guys. Quick regular expressions question here: > > > > I want to match: > > > > <html> > > > > but not: > > > > blah blah <html> > > > > Basically I want to wipe out lines beginning with the <html> tag followed > > immediately by a carriage return. If I do a: > > > > str_replace("<html>\r\n", '', $string); > > > > It wipes out <html> and the carriage return after blah blah <html>. So I > > suppose I have to turn to preg_replace, but I'm having a hard time coming up > > with the right pattern. Thanks. > > > -- > 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 > >