Re: [PHP] HELP: Regex pattern matching

2003-01-23 Thread Nasko Vassilev
Thanks indeed! This pattern worked just perfect. Nasko "1lt John W. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 00e601c2c2e0$0c204720$a629089b@TBHHCCDR">news:00e601c2c2e0$0c204720$a629089b@TBHHCCDR... > If the separators are always the same length, then you can use the > following: > > $new_str

Re: [PHP] HELP: Regex pattern matching

2003-01-23 Thread 1LT John W. Holmes
--- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 6:44 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] HELP: Regex pattern matching > Hmmm... I was about to reply with a simple solution, but there's a problem with it that I can't explain.

Re: [PHP] HELP: Regex pattern matching

2003-01-23 Thread Nasko Vassilev
Hmm... i'm not that advanced... May be first I replace any string containing "---" with "---x", then use your solution? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:r01050400-1023-F7D646F52EC711D78B79003065B83B6C@[208.37.41.173]... > Hmmm... I was about to reply with a simple solution, but there's a

Re: [PHP] HELP: Regex pattern matching

2003-01-23 Thread af
Hmmm... I was about to reply with a simple solution, but there's a problem with it that I can't explain. Assuming the text is in $str... I can't get preg_replace to match a newline at the end of a pattern. If I use... $str = preg_replace('/\n=.+--\n/sU', '', $str); ...it matches nothing,

[PHP] HELP: Regex pattern matching

2003-01-23 Thread Nasko Vassilev
I have an ASCII file which has multiple blocks of text I want to clear. The scheme is as follows: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- line 1 Everything between the separators, line 2 including the separators line 3 I want to clear from the text file line 4 --