preg_replace???

[kylebuttress]

Hello,

Hvae been try to get this to work for me

$html = preg_replace('<br>\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,2}?</p>\b', '', $html);

the main issue it return and error

preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash

i'm sure I'm missing some escape chars but everything I try returns the same error

My objective is to remove any <br> from the string that is near a </p>

any help would be great

thanks

[dagon]

as the error says you can use a backslash as the Delimiter

that's the first and last \ in the pattern, replace it with /

hopefully some else will point out any errors in the pattern, im not so great with them.

[kylebuttress]

ahh notice I made a type o in the code

$html = preg_replace('/\b<br>\W+(?:\w+\W+){1,6}?</p>\b/', '', $html);

however putting the / did fix the issue.

thanks for your suggestion.

[kylebuttress]

I originally code the regular expression at http://www.regular-expressions.info/near.html

original expression

\bword1\W+(?:\w+\W+){1,6}?word2\b

and I'm trying to use this in the preg_replace but not sure if it's even going to work.

thanks again