Posted by Php on 04/29/05 01:13

Thanks SOO much.

It works flawlessly. I find it scary that there are people out there who do
regular expressions off the top of their heads. Anyway, thanks alot,

-Ethan Nelson,
Modulus, LLC

"Philip Hallstrom" <php@philip.pjkh.com> wrote in message
news:20050428134450.D87918@wolf.pjkh.com...
>
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, php wrote:
>
>> Its a long story, but basically, theres some code we cannot get around
>> that
>> is taking anchor tags such as <a href="#sat"> and turning them into <a
>> href="http://host.com/folder/file.html?var=var&var2=var2#sat>.
>>
>> I need to undo this action with a pattern match on a large body of
>> content
>> with "". Can this be done. Here are further details:
>>
>> I need a regular expression that will recognize the following where
>> #anchor
>> can be anything such as #sat or #sunday or #lastpage:
>>
>> <a*href="http://*#anchor"*>
>>
>> And turn it into this:
>>
>> <a*href="#anchor"*>
>>
>> What I am doing is removing the
>> http://host/.../.../file.html?variable&variable that immediately precedes
>> the #anchor.
>
> Hmm...
>
> $str = ereg_replace('<(a[^>]*href=")http://[^#]*(#[^"]*")>', '<$1$2>',
> $str);
>
> Completely untested and assumes lowercase tags and the use of double
> quotes and that a single <a href> tag fits on a single line...
>
> But it's a start.
>
> -philip

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