Easy Regex

[Chris]

I've done alot of searching and can't seem to find this simple
replacement for table tags.

The end result is that I need to replace <td ABUNCHOFNONSENSEwith
<td>

Here's what I have now:

preg_replace('/^<td.+>/','<td>',$content);

It seems to do nothing, so I assume my pattern isn't matching anything.

[Jeff]

Chris wrote:

I've done alot of searching and can't seem to find this simple
replacement for table tags.

The end result is that I need to replace <td ABUNCHOFNONSENSEwith
<td>

Here's what I have now:

preg_replace('/^<td.+>/','<td>',$content);

Perhaps:

$content = preg_replace('/^<td.+>/','<td>',$content);

and perhaps you don't want to match at the start of $content with "^"

You may also wish to use the g and i switches.

Jeff

>
It seems to do nothing, so I assume my pattern isn't matching anything.

[Paul Lautman]

Chris wrote:

I've done alot of searching and can't seem to find this simple
replacement for table tags.

The end result is that I need to replace <td ABUNCHOFNONSENSEwith
<td>

Here's what I have now:

preg_replace('/^<td.+>/','<td>',$content);

It seems to do nothing, so I assume my pattern isn't matching
anything.

Seems to work fine for me. I ran the following script:
<?php
$content = '<td ABUNCHOFNONSENSE>';
echo htmlentities(preg_replace('/^<td.+>/','<td>',$content));
?>

and the output in my browser was <td>

[AnrDaemon]

Greetings, Chris.
In reply to Your message dated Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 23:11:44,

I've done alot of searching and can't seem to find this simple
replacement for table tags.

The end result is that I need to replace <td ABUNCHOFNONSENSEwith
<td>

Here's what I have now:

preg_replace('/^<td.+>/','<td>',$content);

It seems to do nothing, so I assume my pattern isn't matching anything.

There is no simple solution, but what you are trying is not correct one in any
case.
It will result in '<td>' on a string '<td>somestuff</td>'.
I myself would try something like this:

preg_replace('#<(list|of|tags)(?:\s+\w+\=(?:\"[^\"]+\"|\'[^\']+\'|\S+))*\s*>#i', '<$1>', $content);
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