Posted by pete M on 09/28/61 11:13

The pattern

$pattern = 'font\-size:.*?\;';

throwns the error
eregi_replace(): REG_BADRPT


Erwin Kerk wrote:
> pete M wrote:
>
>> I've been messing about with this for a while to no avail.. so help
>> would be appreciates
>>
>> I'm new to regular expressions and tried this with preg_replace, now
>> I'm using eregi_replace !
>>
>> here's the text
>>
>> $txt = '<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New
>> Roman";">It<br />
>> blahh blahhh blahhh of<br />
>> </span>';
>>
>> what I want to do it take the font-size and font-family attributes
>> "out" so
>> style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
>> beomes
>> style=" "
>>
>> and the php
>>
>> $pattern = 'font-size:*\;';
>> $txt = eregi_replace($replace,'',$txt);
>>
>> $pattern = 'font-family:*\;';
>> $txt = eregi_replace($replace,'',$txt);
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is match the font-size: and replace everything
>> up to the ; with '' ie nothing
>>
>> dont work
>> Feel I'm so close ;-(
>>
>> tia
>>
>> Pete
>>
>
>
> Try this:
>
> $pattern = 'font\-size:.*?\;';
>
>
>
> Erwin Kerk

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