More complex regular expression

[Maniac]

Ok, I have the following HTML code (no PHP):

<IF anonymous>Anonymous User<ELSE>Registred User</IF>

There is actually more Code but I cut that out for you to have a better view. The principle is to show Anonymous User if a condition is true or show Registred user when the condition is false. This is evaluated before the file is printed on screen. I have used the following regular expression for that purpose:

/< if +anonymous >(.)< else >(.)< /if >/is

But this only works with one IF statement per file (because the regexp looks for the first and the last if in the file). Is it possible to check if between the <if ....> and the <else> is another <if>?

Hope you understand me 🙂

[Weedpacket]

First thing to be clear on is that you ought to be using preg_match - that's if you aren't already.
Second (at least with preg_match()) replacing (.) with (.?) should do the trick.

Third (defintiely with preg_match()) I'm suspecting you'll be wanting to have an 's' modifier at the end of the regexp, so that newlines get counted as "any character" for the purposes of matching a ..

[Maniac]

Thank you, this works perfectly!
I have used preg_match_all for this 😉
This (.*?) did it.