Error when using preg_replace 1

[DeepBlerg]

I have a php page that imports a html page and displays it, I am trying to use preg_replace to remove a line at the bottom of the imported html page, heres the code I'm using:

<?
$filename = &quot;admin/$id&quot;.&quot;.htm&quot;;
$fd = fopen ($filename , &quot;r&quot;
$MyStr = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
fclose ($fd);
$badStr = &quot;/(<br><font size=1>generated with <a href=\&quot;

http://whatever.com\&quot;>html

generator</a></font>)/&quot;
$goodStr = &quot;&quot;;
$MyStr = preg_replace($badStr, $goodStr, $MyStr);
print $MyStr;
?>

But instead it shows the html page without removing the line that I want removed and shows this error:

Warning: Unknown modifier '/' in //

http://www/html/products.php

on line 58

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks.

 

[DumTech]

Have you tried escaping all the forward slashes in the bad string? I think preg_replace is probably seeing the // in the URL as one / to end the regular expression and the next / as a preg_replace option (like /blah/g to do a global replace). Escape all the forward slashes (those in the URL and in the HTML tags) and see if that helps.

Just a guess. Matt
matt@paperlove.org
If I can help, I will.

 

[gerrygerry]

Why not just use str_replace... isn't it faster? -gerrygerry
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