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[David Sklar]

If you just want the title out of the document, try this:

if (preg_match('@<title>(.*?)</title>@i',$str, $matches)) {
    $title = $matches[1];
} else {
    print "There's no title";
}

David


On Monday, August 11, 2003 5:58 PM,  wrote:

> I have an apparently valid regular expression,
> ^.*<title>([^<]*)</title>.*$
> that works well in one site, but causes the server hosting a
> different site to grind its teeth to nubs on it - consistently
> exceeding max ex time... 
> 
> the full line goes like this:
>     $text_a_title =
> eregi_replace("^.*<title>([^<]+)</title>.*$","\\1",$str);
> 
> if i bypass this line, everything else works swimmingly...
> 
> 
> any suggestions?
> (taking a title from an html file)
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> FB`
> 
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