deleting substring between tokenA, ending in tokenB inclusive w/ regex?

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  1. #1
    I have some dynamic markup i need to clean up and I think some kind of regex is the way to go. The dynamic part is parameters in an onclick JS call, so I can't use a generic search and replace.


    sample line from markup i am parsing: 
    <div class="oddsTableLink" onclick="OpenLink('1236', '140345078', '1');"">
    PHP:
    I want to delete every attribute in this div to just be left with 
    <div>
    PHP:
    can anyone show me how? I found a regex to delete the content BETWEEN my delimiters but not the actual delimiters themselves.

    any help appreciated
    a total regex noob
     
    travelseo, Mar 3, 2011 IP
  2. gapz101

    gapz101 Well-Known Member

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    #2
    try this:
    
$str = 'some markup';

$str = preg_replace('/<div([^>]+)>/', '<div>', $str);
    Code (markup):
     
    Last edited: Mar 4, 2011
    gapz101, Mar 4, 2011 IP
  3. SpamHat

    SpamHat Peon

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    #3 
    
<?php
$html = <<<HTML
<div class="oddsTableLink" onclick="OpenLink('1236', '140345078', '1');"">';
HTML
preg_match('/<div([^>]+)>/si', $html, $m);
$clean = str_replace($m[1], '', $html);
?>
    Code (markup):
     
    SpamHat, Mar 4, 2011 IP