Re: regular expressions

Take a look at the strip_tags function. It will remove all HTML tags (and php tags) from a string... so then you'd end up with just a normal string of text and could do what you want with it... -philip >Hi there, > I want to detect certain words in a sentence, but I want to avoid = >the same words if they appear inside a tag (meaning I want to detect = >only those in the text the user sees). >I tried this pattern but none worked well. >For example: > ><div align=3D'left'>this is the word test link to <a = >href=3D'http://www.test.com'>test</a> ></div>"; > >How do I manage to detect *only* the first and the third instants of = >the word TEST in the above example? >Thanks, >David.