Use of expressions

[rayzun]

what should I do to completely erase a piece of HTML
"http://doman.com/pg=12hechgk7/*"

$var = "<a href=http://doman.com/pg=12hechgk7/*http://my.com>link stuff</a> and so on";

echo "$var"; // <a href=http://my.com>link stuff</a> and so on

However "pg= " varies from time to time

$pattern = '/pg=12hechgk7/*/';

any pointers for solution like reg ex ??

[drew010]

$html = preg_replace("/\/pages=[^\/]*/i", "", $html);

or do you mean get rid of the whole url?

$html = preg_replace("/http:\/\/.*?\s/i", "", $html);

nm. i see the edit now. one second.

[drew010]

$var = "<a href=http://doman.com/pg=12hechgk7/*http://my.com>link stuff</a> and so on";

$var = preg_replace("/(<a href=)http:\/\/.*?\*/i", "$1", $var);

echo $var;

that'll do it