On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 03:02:16PM +1000, Justin French wrote:
>
> This isn't working:
> $text = preg_replace('/<!--(.*)-->/','',$text);
>
> Can someone advise what characters I need to escape, or whatever to get
> it going?
It's not a matter of escaping. You're matching too much with the ".*".
If you're sure you won't have any right-point-brackets inside comments,
you can use something like:
$text = ereg_replace("<!--[^>]*-->","",$text);
Accurately matching comments in an extended regular expression is tricky
though. The only thing you can really *negate* in an ereg is a range,
not an atom. And the close of the comment can't be prepresented as a
range, since it's multiple characters.
Not to say it can't be done. I just can't think of how at the moment.
:)
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