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Ok I think that I have it but if anyone here thinks I am doing this all wrong I am open to suggestions :p For others w/ the same problem you want to see the preg_replace function in the manual. [url=http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php]http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php[/url] [b]I HAD[/b]     $imagename = $data['image']; which came out like:     $imagename = <img src="%%URLofImages%%/WHATINEED.JPG" style="border: 0px">; and all I wanted was "WHATINEED.JPG" so I needed to remove text before and after that text. [b]THIS IS HOW I DID IT[/b]     $imagetemp = $data['image'];     $patterns[0] = '/<img src=\"%%URLofImages%%\//';     $patterns[1] = '/\" style=\"border: 0px\">/';     $replacements[1] = '';     $replacements[0] = '';     $imagename = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $imagetemp); There could be a better way, and if anyone here knows then please feel free I just wanted to post the answer that I had in case it would help others in my spot. Thanks for the great board, I will be using this often on my journal to learn PHP. Com-

After reading this post I noticed that I might not have been too clear on what I am tring to do  ::) Right now I have:     $variable = <img src="%%URLofImages%%/WHATINEED.JPG" style="border: 0px">; and I need it to be:     $variable = WHATINEED.JPG; ----------------- I could have done this in PERL using $variable = <img src="%%URLofImages%%/WHATINEED.JPG" style="border: 0px">; $variable =~ s/<img src=\"%%URLofImages%%\///g; $variable =~ s/\" style=\"border: 0px\">//g; I just can't figure out how it's done in PHP. Thanks again for the help.

I have a variable that comes out with a full HTML img tag. I need to remove all the text before the img name, and all the text after so the only thing left is the actual name of the image. EXAMPLE:  <img src="%%URLofImages%%/WHATINEED.JPG" style="border: 0px"> so I need to remove the "<img src="%%URLofImages%%/" and the "" style="border: 0px">" from the string to leave WHATINEED.JPG. I have looked up variable manipulation, variable editing, variable text stripping and have found nothing that fits what I am looking to do. Thanks for all the help. Com-