Replacing Text Within Range Problem

guest

Hey, I finally figured out how to replace all the text within

Now, I can grab that, but let's say my string looks like this:

<tagname>blah , text is here, more text</tagname> so yeah here is so text not in the tags. <tagname>this text is within tags</tagname> the end.

so if I use the code I have, itll grab

"<tagname>blah , text is here, more text</tagname> so yeah here is so text not in the tags. <tagname>this text is within tags</tagname>"

I need help with code so it wills top at the first </tagname> and then split it and add the second set of tags' data.

heres what I was using:

eregi("(<tagname>)(.*)(</tagname>)","<tagname>blah</tagname>,$Data);

Weedpacket

Don't use eregi(), use preg_match() or preg_match_all(); then you can write (.*?) which will only match as much as necessary (instead of as much as possible).

!(<tagname> )(.*?)(</tagname> )!is

The 'i' after the pattern is to make it case-insensitive (like the 'i' in 'eregi'), and the 's' is so that '.' matches newline characters (which it doesn't by default).