>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Palermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Matt> Is there a way to replace everything between 2 given strings
    Matt> if it exists?  Say I have:
 
    Matt> $str = "replace anything and everything in here.";
 
    Matt> Now I want to replace everything between the word "replace"
    Matt> and "here.", so the new string could read something like
    Matt> this:
 
    Matt> $str = "replace NOTHING here.";

how about something like this (untested)
    $newStr= preg_replace("/^(replace).*(here)$/", "${1} NOTHING ${2}", $str);

sort of  like in the manual:
    http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php 

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