That's an idea but it would delete the carriage return before it which I
don't want to happen.  I've tried preg_replace("/^<html>\r\n/", '', $string)
+ quite a few other variations but no luck :-(.  Argh!

David

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From: "Bogdan Stancescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Yee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Quick regular expressions question / preg_replace


> I suck big time at regular expressions, but have you tried
> str_replace("\r\n<html>\r\n", '', $string); ?
>
> Bogdan
>
> David Yee wrote:
>
> > Hi guys.  Quick regular expressions question here:
> >
> > I want to match:
> >
> > <html>
> >
> > but not:
> >
> > blah blah <html>
> >
> > Basically I want to wipe out lines beginning with the <html> tag
followed
> > immediately by a carriage return.  If I do a:
> >
> > str_replace("<html>\r\n", '', $string);
> >
> > It wipes out <html> and the carriage return after blah blah <html>.  So
I
> > suppose I have to turn to preg_replace, but I'm having a hard time
coming up
> > with the right pattern.  Thanks.
>
>
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