Hi All,
Im getting confused.

Could someone help me to create expressions for preg_replace which i am really struggling with

1) <H2>Foreign News &nbsp;<IMG height=40
src="fullPage_files/foreign.gif" width=48 border=0></H2>

I require to convert Foreign News to uppercase but other titles as well that are in the same format. (the image is throwing my preg_replace I am sure

I am using ($buffer all the html code extracted from file)

$buffer = preg_replace("/<(h[0-9])>(.*?)<\/h[0-9]>/ie", "'<\\1>'.strtoupper('\\2').'</\\1>'", $buffer);

the above works if text is only in <H2>test</H2> and not when there is a image in the H tags as well

ALSO

2. I wish to replace an image with an * in the file.

the image in html is <IMG height=9 alt="" src="fullPage_files/darkerbullet.gif"
width=9 border=0>

when I try to use a replace I think the " in the img tag are throwing the replace. How do i deal with this.

Cheers for any help you can offer me.

Your first one is doing exactly what you meant - capitalising all the things between the h2s, including the image tag and the non-breaking space - If you don't want it capitalised you'll have to move it outside the h2, or re-write the regex to ignore things inside of other tags.

You could do the second one with just a simple text replacement:

PHP Code:

$str2 = str_replace("<IMG height=9 alt=\"\" src=\"fullPage_files/darkerbullet.gif\" width=9 border=0>","*",$str); 


first, strip the image tags, then convert to uppercase.

$buffer = preg_replace("/<img.*?>/i", "*", $buffer);

$buffer = preg_replace("/<(h[0-9])>(.*?)<\/h[0-9]>/ie", "'<\\1>'.strtoupper('\\2').'</\\1>'", $buffer);


are you going to have more tags inside the H tag?