Combining regex's

[OhLordy]

How would I combine these three ereg_replace statements into one?

ereg_replace("<[^{>]>","",$bibbit_two[$i]);}
ereg_replace("[^>]>","",$bibbit_two[$i]);
ereg_replace(">","",$bibbit_two[$i]);

Any help would be great
Rob

[Weedpacket]

Well, first I'd recommend upgrading to preg_replace. The syntax is a bit hairier, but it's exponentially better than POSIX syntax.

Beyond syntax; for one thing preg_replace() can take arrays of search strings (and arrays of replacements), and apply all of them.

But the simplest would probably be to use the disjunction operator | - especially since they're all being replaced by the same string

<[^>]*>|[^>]*>|>

Which appears to be simplifiable to

(<?[^>]*)?>

[OhLordy]

Right,
I went for the simplest implementation I replaced

<?
ereg_replace("<[^>]*>","",$bibbit_two[$i]); 
ereg_replace("[^>]*>","",$bibbit_two[$i]); 
ereg_replace(">","",$bibbit_two[$i]); 
?>

with

<?
$bibbit_two[$i]=ereg_replace("<[^>]*>|[^>]*>|>","",$bibbit_two[$i]);
?>

and now nothing at all is going into the array. Do you know where I can find documentation on the syntax of the preg regex's?