ereg_replace code

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i updated my php to 5.3 and i have a problem with my ereg_replace

$txt = ereg_replace("<(/)?(font|span|div|del|ins)[^>]*>","",$txt); 
$txt = ereg_replace("<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=(\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^>]+)([^>]*)>","<\\1>",$txt);
$txt = ereg_replace("<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=(\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^>]+)([^>]*)>","<\\1>",$txt);

if i change the ereg_replace to preg_replace i get the warning :

Message: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier ']'

could someone help me fix the preg_replace

Why are you changing from `ereg_replace` to `preg_replace` at all? — Matt Ball, Mar 18 '13 at 23:49

Mike Brant · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-19T00:27:27.300

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It is because you don't have pattern delimiters at all. You need to add them.

Try this

$pattern1 = '#<(/)?(font|span|div|del|ins)[^>]*>#';
$pattern2 = '#<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=(\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^>]+)([^>]*)>#';
$txt = preg_replace($pattern1, '', $txt);
$txt = preg_replace($pattern2, '<\\1>', $txt);

Better yet though, would be to not use regex at all to try to parse HTML like this.

edited Mar 19 '13 at 00:27

answered Mar 19 '13 at 00:04

Mike Brant

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '13 at 00:05

$txt = preg_replace("~<(/)?(font|span|div|del|ins)[^>]*>~","",$txt); 
$txt = preg_replace("~<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=(\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^>]+)([^>]*)>~","<\\1>",$txt);
$txt = preg_replace(~"<([^>]*)(class|lang|style|size|face)=(\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'|[^>]+)([^>]*)>~","<\\1>",$txt);

I've been added delimiters(~) to this expressions. Try.

ereg_replace code

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