You could do it using the strpos() function to find the index of the first
occurance of "<i>" and strrpos() for the last occurence. Then use
substr() to grab what you want...
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Julian Simpson wrote:
> I'm trying to parse an existing html file using php.
> I need to use regex to find the first (and only the first) occurance of <i>
> and the last (and only the last) occurance of </i> in a string.
> They will be replaced with ||.
>
> example of a string:
> blah blah <i>some stuff</i> that i <i>need to get</i> blah blah blah.
>
> needs to become:
> blah blah ||some stuff that i need to get|| blah blah blah.
>
> so the following is what i need.....
> //replace outer tags with ||
> $string = ereg_replace ("Some regex that only finds the first <i>","||",$string);
> $string = ereg_replace ("Some regex that only finds the last </i>","||",$string);
> //take out remaining (inner) tags.
> $string = ereg_replace ("<i>","",$string);
> $string = ereg_replace ("</i>","",$string);
>
> thanks
>
> Julian
>
>
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