Posted by Chung Leong on 10/15/06 04:49

Daz wrote:
> Hi everyone. I am looking to create a simple function that will spot a
> hexcolor in a font tag, that has quotes, and remove the quotes. i.e
> <font color="ffffff"> should become <font color=ffffff>.
>
> Perhaps I am making it more complex than it needs to be, but I have
> broken down the input string into an array of single characters using
> preg_split(), and I am iterating through the chars, looking for a quote
> followed by a hash. The problem appear to be with the hash. Although it
> prints out fine, not amount of escaping the hash seems to allow me to
> match it. Instead preg_match() match spaces (obviously because the
> veriable I am using to store the '#', is not storing it properly.
>
> Please could someone put me out of my misery by either hinting towards
> a simpler way to do it, or just shooting me?
>
> I am sure there are at least 100 different ways of using regex to
> achieve what I want, but I can't think how. Perhaps I am just looking
> at the wrong functions?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Daz.

Why not just preg_replace('/(<font\s+color\s*=\s*)"(#[0-9a-f]+)"/si',
'\1\2', $html)?

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