Posted by Jasen Betts on 02/17/06 09:36

On 2006-02-16, Piratron <piratron05@gmail.com> wrote:
> MaKroZ wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:09:33 +0100, Piratron wrote:
>>

><tr><td>
><!--ec1-->text1<!--ec2-->
></td></tr>
><tr><td>
><!--ec1-->text2<!--ec2-->
></td></tr>
><tr><td>
><!--ec1-->text3<!--ec2-->
></td></tr>
><tr><td>
><!--ec1-->text4<!--ec2-->
></td></tr>
> ---------------------
>
> the problem is that
> ereg_replace("(<!--ec1-->).*(<!--ec2-->)","\\1$repl\\2", $string);
> will replace text from first "<!--ec1-->" occurrence (line 2 in example)
> and last occurrence (line 12 in example).

you need a non-greedy match.



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Bye.
Jasen

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