Find and delete strings

[akiznin]

How can I make it so my php script will delete everything in between "< >" (without quotes) and delete the arrows as well?

[mike12255]

were is this all located? a txt file, a database? we need info

[akiznin]

text file

 

[Ken2k7]

preg_replace('<[^>]*>','',$str);

[akiznin]

i get an error..

 

<?php
$ourFileName = "test.txt";
$fh = fopen($ourFileName, 'r+') or die("Can't open file");
echo preg_replace('<[^>]*>','',$fh);
fclose($fh);
?>

[xtopolis]

Use file_get_contents / file_put_contents.  In your script, $fh points to stream, not the data as a string.

fopen() binds a named resource, specified by filename , to a stream.

 

$fn = "test.txt";
$file = file_get_contents($fn);
$file = preg_replace('<[^>]*>','',$file);
file_put_contents($fn, $file);

 

Untested.

[akiznin]

i get another error..

 

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier ']' in C:\xampp\htdocs\1.php on line 4

[xtopolis]

Uff, teach me to copypasta.  I think it just needs delimiters on that line:

$file = preg_replace('/<[^>]*>/','',$file);

(I added slashes)

edit, but im not sure that regex does what you want?

[akiznin]

omg, thank you so MUCH!!

 

edit: how can i also delete in between ( and )? i replaced the arrows but it deletes everything..

[Ken2k7]

preg_replace(array('#<[^>]*>#','#\([^)]*\)#'),'',$str);