html tag Pattern Matching

Anon

I need to clean html tags from Microsoft.

For example I want to change:

TO:

If you can help me I would appreciate it or if you can direct me to a good lesson on pattern matching.

cvincent

RegEx tutorial:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/dario19990616.php3

-Chris

Anon

I already read that article and I didn't find a example that helped me solve this problem.

cvincent

Make $pattern your string that you want to make replaces in. This will replace all tags starting with .

$pattern = "<TEXT COLOR='blue'>";

$pattern = explode("<",$pattern);

foreach(array_keys($pattern) as $key) {
if(eregi("^span", $pattern[$key])) {
$pattern[$key] = "";
} else {
if($pattern[$key] != "") $pattern[$key] = "<".$pattern[$key];
}
}
$pattern = implode("", $pattern);
print $pattern;

-Chris

cvincent

It really messed up the example code with some HTML tags. I just had other tags in the original $pattern thing like HTML and B tags just to give it some others. I also forgot to mention that it is case insensitive.

-Chris

Anon

$text = eregi_replace("<span([^{>]|\n)*>","",} $text);

Replace span with any tag such as p or html.

The reason to use this is to clean Microsoft code such a tag like:

so you can turn it into:

$text = eregi_replace("<p([^{>]|\n)*>","",} $text);