Posted by Christophe Chisogne on 01/06/05 12:30

Binoy AV a écrit :
> Hi,
> I have an html file containing a table. I applied
> eregi("<TR>.*</TR>",$contents,$temp) through my Php.I am getting
> (...)
> The code removing only the first and last <(/)tr>.

Expected behaviour : regex are 'greedy', ie
the .* matches the longuest string possible

> How to do it using eregi ?

Use preg_* functions (Perl regex are more powerfull and faster)

ex (not tested)
$temp = preg_replace('/<tr>(.*?)<\\/tr>/', '$1', $content);

PS the '?' in '.*?' means previous modifier (*) is not greedy
(Perl re syntax, man perlre)

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