You could exclude the '}' sign from the expression
$content = ereg_replace("\{[^}]*}","",$content);
This should do the trick... i'm not 100% certain about the '[^}]'
expression, but you should find it in any regexp tutorial
regards,
Ewout de Boer
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From: "Brent Baisley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "php-gen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: [PHP] Regular Expression trouble
> I'm trying create form template as I have seen recommended in many
> places. It seems fairly simple but I can't seem to get ereg_replace to
> work the way I want it.
> I'm starting off easy and I want to use the sample template for entering
> a new record or editing an existing one. If they are editing, then I
> obviously want to populate the form fields with values. If it's a new
> entry, I don't want any values. Simple enough.
>
> A form entry looks like this:
> <input type="text" ... value="{Name}">
> <input type="text" ... value="{Title}">
>
> So I load the template into a variable using ob_start(), etc. I assumed
> that to "clear" out all the value declarations I would simply do this:
> $content = ereg_replace("\{.*}","",$content);
>
> But it seems to be replacing everything between the first instance of
> { and the last instance of }, rather than each instance of {}. I've used
> regular expressions before and I even tested it using grep in BBEdit 6.5
> and it works as I would expect. I'm using PHP 4.1.2 on Mac OSX 10.1.5.
>
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