Posted by lawrence k on 12/05/05 05:47

I do not know much about regex.

I'm worried about lines like this:

<a href="myFile>my file</a>

There is only one quote mark in that html.

I wanted to fix this problem, so I tried this:


function command($string=false) {
$pattern = '/(.*)<a (.*)"(.*)>/i';
$replacement = '$1<$2"$3">';
$newString = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $string);
return $newString;
}


This finds no matches. Even when I feed it the above as a test line.

What have I done wrong.

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