search, delete within tags in a variable

[Joan_Collins]

Hi,

It seems simple, but I can't work out how to do this. I have a variable, let's say $text, which includes a slab of paragraphs and an image inside a table tag (near the beginning).

I'm truncating the string for a brief description, and I want of course to eliminate the graphic from the short synopsis - the simplest way of doing this is to search inside $text for the table tags and delete everything between them (the tags themselves being included).

How do I do this? I know how to do a simple search and replace, but have no idea how to specify that everything between "this" and "that" should be deleted. Thanks in advance for any help.

[Joan_Collins]

Ha, it really was incredibly simple - I just found out how to do it...

$text = strip_tags($text); 

worked famously, in case this info is useful for anybody else.

Although, I'm still interested in how I would do it if I, say, wanted to delete everything between the words "context" and "unofficially" (not being html tags) in a string, if anybody could help.

Thanks...

[barand]

Have a look at [man]strpos[/man] to locate the two words and [man]substr_replace[/man] to replace the text (with "" in this case)