Easy preg_match Problem

[Seas.Comander]

I've been working on this forever now and am tired of not finding the answer so I'm just going to ask here. I need to find the following consecutive 6 lines that appear in many of my .html pages, I'm going to replace those lines with new html...

 

</center>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</td>

</tr>

 

This is what I've come up with for this right now, but as you probably can see just by looking at it, it doesn't work.

 

$content = preg_replace('|</center>(.*$)</td>(.*$)</tr>(.*$)</table>(.*$)</td>(.*$)</tr>|ms', $extra, $content);

[.josh]

'~</center>.*?</td>.*?</tr>.*?</table>.*?</td>.*?</tr>~s'

[thebadbad]

I'm not actually sure why your pattern doesn't work, but it must have something to do with the 'inline' end-of-line anchors. You should just use \s* (zero or more whitespace characters) instead:

 

$content = preg_replace('|</center>\s*</td>\s*</tr>\s*</table>\s*</td>\s*</tr>|i', $extra, $content);

I also made the search case insensitive.