[PHP] regular expressions

[René Fournier]

I'm trying to 'clean up' some text that is extracted from a web 
directory, and I need to use (I think) preg_replace or ereg_replace, 
etc. I've read a bunch of tutorials, but none of them seem to cover the 
particular thing I want to do. Here's an example of text I need to 
process:

---------

J.  Smith   ( More Info )
map
driving directions
add to My Directory
update or remove
Did you go to High School with J.  Smith?
 
B. Dixon   ( More Info )
map
driving directions
add to My Directory
update or remove
Did you go to High School with B. Dixon?

M.  Jones   ( More Info )
map
driving directions
add to My Directory
update or remove
Did you go to High School with M.  Jones?

---------

The above is a string. I want to eliminate, for example, all the lines 
that say "Did you... ?", but I don't know how to refer to them because 
they are each a little different (because of the name). I know regular 
expressions can do this, but I can't seem to wrap my mind around the 
necessary arguments... This being my first foray into regex. I've 
written feeble stuff like:

$result = ereg_replace("Did you go\[a-zA-Z]\?","",$result);

But of course it doesn't work. Any ideas?  Thanks.

...Rene
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