On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 06:27:51 -0700 (PDT), Kathleen Ballard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am at the tailend of a project that involves moving
> legacy data from one dbms to another. The client has
> added a new requirement to the data manipulation that
> is required. I need to remove all <br /> tags (there
> may be more that one) that appear within all <h*>
> tags.
>
> I am not very familiar with building regular
> expressions, but I see this as a 2 part process.
> First, to grab <h*> tags, and second, to strip the
> br's.
>
> I can grab the beginning of the tag easily, but my
> expressions grab too much.
>
> Also, I am not sure how to remove the br's.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. I have tried to find
> similar examples, but without any luck. Also, php5 is
> not an option at this point.
>
$text = preg_replace('!(<h\d[^>]*>.*?)<br/>(.*?</h\d>)!is', '\1\2', $text);
You may also have to do this several times as this will only get one
br per <h> tag.
$newText = $text;
do {
$text = $newText;
$newText = preg_replace('!(<h\d[^>]*>.*?)<br/>(.*?</h\d>)!is', '\1\2', $text);
} while($text != $newText);
> Kathleen
>
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