Posted by Miles Thompson on 12/06/05 15:20

At 07:06 AM 12/6/2005, Richard Heyes wrote:
>Georgi Ivanov wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I want to replace the content of html links : <a href="foo"
>>name="bla">REPLACETHIS</a>.
>>$html=preg_replace("/(<a.*name=.*>)(.*)<\/a>/isU",$link,$html,1);
>>This generally works but removes <a>,</a> tags too.
>>How to make it work without removing anything else than (.*) in the
>>middle of <a>.*</a>
>
>$html = preg_replace("/(<a.*name=.*>)(.*)<\/a>/isU", '\1' . $link .
>'</a>', $html, 1);
>
>--
>Richard Heyes
>http://www.phpguru.org

If you know what you are replacing, i.e. REPLACETHIS is a placeholder,
str_replace() or substr_replace() are much simpler.

Miles Thompson

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