Why not just limit it to one <br>?
<?php $string="blah<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>stuff"; while ( stristr($string, '<br><br>') ) { $string=str_replace('<br><br>', '<br>', $string); } echo $string; ?> something like that would wok well enough... -----Original Message----- From: James Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Regex Form Filter Help I have a site where users can type whatever they want in and it posts it to a database. I'm trying to eliminate whatever types of abuse I can think of, and, since I'm using nl2br on the posts, I'm afraid a user might just hold down enter for a couple of seconds and scroll everything off the page. I'm trying to figure out a regex pattern that searches for say, more than 5 <br /> strings in a row, and anything after 5 gets stripped out. Any ideas on how to possibly do this? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php