regular expression replace <title>...</title> in fread($htmlfile)

Hi all.. im racking my brain here and its late so maybe im missing something.

im reading an htdoc using fopen/fread into a string var $contents

i want to replace the entire <title> meta tag from start to end..

$file = "index.php";

$h = fopen($file, "r");

$contents = fread($h, filesize($file));

fclose($h);

eregi_replace("<title>[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+</title>","<title>new title tag</title>",$contents);

nothings happening... is it possible that its gettings stopped by other characters in the pattern im not expecting or is there an inherent error-- im new to reg ex

thanks

Logan

 

Here is a refresher info for your Logan:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1329498

Problem with your expression is that you aren't escaping / character.

This should work:

"<title>.*<\/title>"

Peace,

 

In regular expressions you should always escape the meta characters. Sometimes you forget some, so i advise you to use this simple function:
$pattern = ''; // the regexp that you want to use
$pattern = addcslashes($pattern, '^[.${*(\\+)|?<>');

 

thanks guys-- workin fine now.