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Mar 19.2008

I’m using the following to try and replace the body of an HTML page when I’m not sure what settings will be applied to the <body> tag, or what will be contained:

[code]$myString = preg_replace(“/<body.+</body>/i” , $newBodyTag , $pageString);[/code]

Based on the tutorial I’ve been reading, the dot followed by the plus should match any characters, in any amount, between <body> and </body>. The escaped slash shouldn’t interfere. However, after execution the $myString var contains the whole unaltered $pageString. Have I missed something?

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@MrCoderMar 19.2008 — [code=php]
$myString = preg_replace("/<body.+</body>/is" , $newBodyTag , $pageString);
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Try that.

The /s modifier converts the whole string in to one line when preforming the match.
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