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[Analysis & Solutions]

Hi Nestor:

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 11:27:23AM -0400, Nestor Florez wrote:

>    <td width="49">205</td>
>
>  $line = ereg_replace(".*>", "", $line);

As you probably realized, this is too greedy.  The reason is because ".*"
is matching ANY character, including ">" so it goes through the whole line
until it gets to the final ">"  This can be tweaked a tad so all
characters except ">" are 

    $line = ereg_replace('^[^>]+>', '', $line);

Also notice the anchoring of the expression to the start of the line to 
avoid the expression repeating it's actions on subsequent >'s, and the use 
of single quotes since no variables are in the expressions.


> $line = ereg_replace(".*?>", "", $line);

You're on the right track, but "?" is for preg expressions.  So, another 
option is converting it to a preg function:

   $line = preg_replace('/^.*?>/', '', $line);

Enjoy,

--Dan

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