Kinda solved it. Basically wanted to do a mass replace on html stored in
db. They are all the same.
I Just got strpos of a page from the db. and used that string as $match.
works fine.
must be some character in there that means I cant match it. But then I
would expect not being able to match just the <tr>
So if i got the string from the DB it worked no problem. but if I tried
making it myself no go.
I was thinking newlines. then I thought the space after the "<tr> ".
so i dont know. Oh yeah and I also tried matching both
$match2=" <tr>
<td colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\" class=\"footerline\">";
and
$match2=<<<bs
<tr>
<td colspan="3" valign="top" class="footerline">
bs;
but I could match :
$match2=<<<bs
<tr>
bs;
$match2=<<<bs
<td colspan="3" valign="top" class="footerline">
bs;
$match2=" <td colspan=\"3\" valign=\"top\"
class=\"footerline\">";
$match2=" <tr> ";
$content I get from html stored in postgresql database
echo str_replace($match,$replace,$content);
also tried strstr, stristr etc etc.
So I dont know. even when I tried \n instead of new lines. even runing
nl2br on both strings to see if something wierd was going on. and <br>'s
apeared in the same spots on both strings.
Peter wrote:
> can we have a looky at ur actual code for this? might help us to let you
> know where exactly the problem is with ur code...
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2002 7:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] multi line string replace
>
>
> cant seem to get it to work
> say this is the string
>
> " <tr>
> <td colspan="3" valign="top" class="footerline">"
>
> replace with "hello".
>
> problem is, i cant even get other functions to get the position of the
> string.
>
> No problems finding or matching replacing
> " <tr>"
> or
> " <td colspan="3" valign="top" class="footerline">"
>
> but together no luck. strstr, stristr etc str_replace.
>
> also tried
> " <tr>\n <td colspan="3" valign="top"
> class="footerline">"
>
> also tried doing a nl2br on the compare string and actual string first
> to see if that'd work. replaced the exact same bits.
>
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