ereg_replace with html code

[sgray]

Hi Guys,

I'm writing some php code which parses an html file and formats it. I'm having a few problems using the ereg_replace command to strip out some html code. My code is as follows:

<?
$final = ereg_replace("<INPUT TYPE=\"checkbox\" NAME=\"action_chk_lst[[0-9]]\"", " ", $strip2);
?>

$strip2 is the html file contents. The file contains several instances of the above string and action_chk_lst shows up as action_chk_lst[1], action_chk_lst[2], action_chk_lst[3] and so on. My regular expression doesn't seem to match as the html code isnt removed once it's run. Using str_replace and referencing one of the action_chk_lst's specifically works fine (the code is removed and replaced with a space)

Any ideas as to why it's not working, and/or is there a better way to do it?

Thanks a lot,

Stew

[NogDog]

Looks like you need to escape the square brackets around the [0-9] character class. I'd probably use preg_replace, something like:

$final = preg_replace('/<input type="checkbox" name="action_chk_lst\[\d+\]"[^>]*>/i', '', $strip2);

(Note: the "i" after the final "/" makes the search case-insensitive.)