Remove text from a string

[senyo]

I am trying to remove all the text between this tags

<begin>data something something more<end>

what should I use, so that all the text is delete?

[JAY6390]

$text = preg_replace('/<login>.*?<end>/', '<login><end>', $text);

[senyo]

it doesn't work the text is still there

[JAY6390]

 

$text = preg_replace('/<begin>.*?<end>/', '<begin><end>', $text);

Oops for some bizarre reason I put login instead of begin. That should work

[senyo]

that is not the problem, it doesn't remove the text with the right tags

[salathe]

Be more specific with what you want to find/remove, what the bigger piece of text is and what exactly you want the end result to be.  We're not mind readers.

[JAY6390]

Works for me. Either you're using the wrong variable to it or the text isn't as you described. Like salathe says you need to give more info

[senyo]

For this tags it works but for other tags like

<div class=title> data <div class='end'> 

 

it doesn't

[JAY6390]

So you want anything between ANY tags removed completely???

[senyo]

yes

[JAY6390]

oh, in that case I'd use

$text = preg_replace('/>.*?</m', '><', $text);

[senyo]

how would I make it remove from this tags <div class=title> data <div class='end'>, I want make it delete the text between the two tags, and for other tags if I change them

[senyo]

maybe is something wrong with my text, because it finds the tags but it doesn't removes the text

[senyo]

are there other ways of searching and deleting text from  a string?

[x_filed2k]

Can't you use string_replace();

[x_filed2k]

Using preg_match() alone will not remove any string in between the <login> and <end>. Test your codes again but this time put a string in-between the <login> and <end>, and var_dump it, the result will be the string that you wanna remove. Try this one..

 

<?PHP




$pattern = "/<login>.*?<end>/";
$sample_value = "<login>any string here<end>";

preg_match($pattern, $sample_value, $text);
echo("This is the result when you only used the preg_match().<br />");
var_dump($text);
echo("<br /><br />");

$text = str_replace($text, "<login><end>", $sample_value);
echo("You have used the str_replace() to remove the unwanted strings.<br />");
var_dump($text);
echo("<br /><br />");


?>

[JAY6390]

preg_replace is what was used. and it works fine for the tags. The OP was trying to remove everything between tags, not capture it

[x_filed2k]

Waaa.. I thought it was preg_match... that was what I've read.

[x_filed2k]

Sorry for my mistake. Well I tried to do it... Here's the code...

 

$text = preg_replace('/<div class=title>.*?<div class=\'end\'>/', '<div class=title><div class=\'end\'>', $text);