replace string between <head></head>

I am trying to remove the header information for a given html file. After looking through the archives I have come up with the following:

<? $find = "<head>([[:alnum:]]*)<\/head>";

$replace = "\1";
$NEW_OUTPUT = ereg_replace($find, $replace, $content);

echo $NEW_OUTPUT;

But this doesn't seem to work, could anyone give me some help.

Thanks. Zubin

usings substr look for 2 line feeds at the start of the file, HTTP requested ends with 2 line feeds, anything after that is the data.

Hope that helps

You can try this code, it seems like it worked for me:

// strpos() >>is<< case sensitive

// add 5 to not count the <head>
$left = strpos($content,"<head>") + 5;
// minuse $left for length
$right = strpos($content,"</head>") - $left;

$new_output = substr($content,$left,$right);

Hope this can get you started.

-Josh

Geeze, that should have been +6...
Here it is again:

// strpos() >>is<< case sensitive

// +5 to not count the <head>
$left = strpos($content,"<head>") + 6;
// - $left for length
$length = strpos($content,"</head>") - $left;

$new_output = substr($content,$left,$length);