Saturday, April 10, 2004, 2:02:04 AM, you wrote:
> I'm trying to 'clean up' some text that is extracted from a web
> directory, and I need to use (I think) preg_replace or ereg_replace,
> etc. I've read a bunch of tutorials, but none of them seem to cover the
> particular thing I want to do. Here's an example of text I need to
> process:
> ---------
> J. Smith ( More Info )
> map
> driving directions
> add to My Directory
> update or remove
> Did you go to High School with J. Smith?
<snipped>
without further ado:
$str = <your stuff here>;
$what = array("/\r\nupdate or remove/", "/\r\nDid you go.*\?\r\n/i");
$with = array('', '');
echo preg_replace($what, $with, $str);
hth
Richard
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