ereg_replace -->REG_BADRPT warning

[themightycottag]

Hello I'm a bit new to regular expressions and I'm having a problem

I'm trying to strip any code which is inside a <p> tag for instance from
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">
to
<p>

I'm using the following line where $tmpString is the string of html pasted from word.

$tmpString = ereg_replace("<p.*?>", "<p>", $tmpString);

when I use this code I get the error
<b>Warning</b>: ereg_replace(): REG_BADRPT

I've used http://regexlib.com/RETester.aspx tool to see if the <p.*?> is working properly and it seems to be.

I tried replacing it with
preg_replace("<p.*?>", "<p>", $tmpString);
but this didn't work either.

Any help much appreaciated.

[xblue]

POSIX regexp do not support ungreedy matching, that is why the syntax with the questionmark after the quantifier is regarded invalid.

The PCRE regexp should work, but you need to put your pattern into delimiters (e.g. #), or the angular brackets would be mistaken as delimiters and thus not treated as being part of the pattern.

Hope that gets you somewhere.

[themightycottag]

Brilliant!!!, works a treat. 😃

that was driving me crazy.

Thank you very much, consider yourself e-hugged