ereg problems with fopen.

[andreash]

When I try to ereg_replace from the line...
$line = "hello there, Patrick";
$name = ereg_replace ("hello there, (.*)", "\1", $line");

It works fine. $name is now "Patrick" as it should.
But when I take the $line from another server nothing happens.

$fd = fopen ("http://www.asite.com/greetings.html", "r");
while (!feof ($fd)) {
$line .= fgets($fd, 1024);
}
fclose ($fd);

$name = ereg_replace ("hello there, (.*)", "\1", $line");

When I try this $name is "hello there, Patrick", how do I fix this??

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1) I had a look at http://www.asite.com/greetings.html, and it does not contain "hello there,"
So no replacements can be made.

2) your regexp matches on "hello there, (.)" and (.) means "anything" so it will match and replace everything after "hello there," , not just the name.