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 ----- Original Message ----- 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. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]