problem with preg_replace

[Anon]

Hi,

I have problems when replacing text within a string with preg_replace().
The code is like

$old_string='1 [snip] 2 [/snip] 3 [snip] 4 [/snip] 5';

$new_string = preg_replace("/[snip](.*)[\/snip]/i", "",$old_string);

I expected it to output "1 3 5", but instead it $new_string is "1 5"

I have been searching for this problem quite a while now, but din't find anything.

Any help is appreciated, thanks

[madmada]

It appears that preg_replace does very strange things with multiple matches of an expression. Someone else posted a very similar question to which I offered some code. It's very ugly, but it does exactly what you're trying to do. It just does it manually.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=2&id=196045&thread=196037

Make sure you read the addendums.

Adam