Can I combine these...?

[Anon]

OK, I am making some code to remove HTML tags, and then add selected ones back in. I would like to know how to combine lines 2 and 3 into a single regular expression.

$blah = htmlspecialchars($blah);
$blah = ereg_replace( "(&lt😉(b|big|i|p|small)(&gt😉", "<\2>", $blah);
$blah = ereg_replace( "(&lt;/)(b|big|i|p|small)(&gt😉", "</\2>", $blah);

Can anyone do that?

[Anon]

If anyone else wants the solution, I found it:

I combined lines 2 and 3 of this code segment:
$blah = htmlspecialchars($blah);
$blah = ereg_replace( "(&lt😉(b|big|i|p|small)(&gt😉", "<\2>", $blah);
$blah = ereg_replace( "(&lt;/)(b|big|i|p|small)(&gt😉", "</\2>", $blah);
To get this:
$blah = htmlspecialchars($blah);
$blah = ereg_replace( "(&lt😉(/{0,1})(b|big|i|p|small)(&gt😉", "<\2\3>", $blah);

It works quite elegantly, and could be used in place of the code listed here:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/mhall20000621.php3?page=4

[Anon]

I think strip_tags() might be a function that could help you. I think its called that.