Replace String using Wildcards

[deela]

Hi,

 

I am trying to remove some tags from an XML document that I do not need.

 

<string id="4466.8" encoding="repr">email</string>

 

I want to remove the whole tag for the string but keep the content in the middle, the problem is that the id changes, so is there a way to use a 'wildcard' character in the replace code to replace any character found?

 

  $data=str_replace('<stringid="4466.8" encoding="repr">', '  ', $data);

 

I saw a post that /S should work for any non whitespace character, this does not seem to work though... any idea's?

 

Thanks.

[per1os]

www.php.net/preg_replace

www.php.net/ereg_replace

www.php.net/eregi_replace

 

Regular expressions  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions

www.php.net/regex

 

is what you want.