Need help with a regex for SPAN tags

Crussell

Please help me before I beat my brains out !!!!!

I need to able to use a regex within preg_replace to find a specified span tag and replace EVERYTHING between the tag and the </span> (the opening span can contain a number of params, the search term will always be the value of the id), there will be no embedded spans and even if there were I don't care what they are, I just need to replace them 🙂 I've been playing around with regexs for hours without any success so if anyone can suggest something I'd be really grateful!

example:

<span id="left1" style="color:red" otherparam="blah">I need to replace this text</span>

<span id="right1">I might also need to replace this too</span>

Please help before my brain dribbles out of my ear ...

Crussell

mjax

preg_replace('/(<span[^>]*>)[^<]*(<\/span>)/i', '\\1'.'NEW TEXT BETWEEN SPAN TAGS'.'\\2', $value);

By the way, The Regexp Coach is a handy tool if you want to experiment with regular expressions.

Crussell

Thank you Sir! You've saved what little sanity I had left 🙂

I'll give Regex Coach a try ... and also actually read up on Regex properly rather then the half-hearted attempts I've tried before.

Cheers!

Crussell