On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:26:34AM -0400, Rob Ellis wrote:
> >
> > $text = ereg_replace("<!--[^>]*-->","",$text);
>
> you can make the .* less greedy...
>
> $text = preg_replace('/<!--.*?-->/', '', $text);
Interesting to know. My preg-foo is limited; I came at PHP from a
background of awk and sed, so when I regexp, I'm a little more
traditional about it.
Interestingly, from a shell:
$ text='one <!-- bleh --> two\nthree <!-- blarg -->four\n'
$ printf "$text" | sed -E 's/<!--([^-][^-]?[^>]?)*-->//g'
one two
three four
which is the same behaviour as PHP. But that still doesn't cover
multi-line. PHP's ereg support is supposed to, but doesn't work with
this particular substitution:
$text="one <!--bleh\nblarg -> two\n";
print ereg_replace("<!--([^-][^-]?[^>]?)*-->", "",$text);
returns
one <!--bleh
blarg -> two
But we know it really does support multiline, because:
$text="aaaabb\nbbcccc";
print ereg_replace("[^ac]","",$text);
returns
aaaacccc
So ... this is interesting, and perhaps I'll investigate it further if
the spirit moves me. ;-)
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