How do I escape angle brackets?

[Mxsmanic]

I have a line like this in some PHP code on my Web page:

$callthis =~ s/<[^>]*>//g;

When the page runs, I get this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /Feedback.php on line 145

So I presume I must escape angle brackets somehow in the regular
expression. How do I do it? I tried putting a backslash in front of
each angle bracket, but that doesn't seem to work (same error).

The purpose of the statement is to remove HTML tags from the string.

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[Ken Robinson]

Re: How do I escape angle brackets?


Mxsmanic wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a line like this in some PHP code on my Web page:
>
> $callthis =~ s/<[^>]*>//g;
>
> When the page runs, I get this error:
>
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /Feedback.php on line 145[/color]

That doesn't look like any PHP code that I know.
Use the function strip_tags() to strip HTML from strings.

Ken

[Chris Hope]

Re: How do I escape angle brackets?

Mxsmanic wrote:
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> I have a line like this in some PHP code on my Web page:
>
> $callthis =~ s/<[^>]*>//g;[/color]

Looks like Perl to me.
[color=blue]
> When the page runs, I get this error:
>
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /Feedback.php on line 145
>
> So I presume I must escape angle brackets somehow in the regular
> expression. How do I do it?[/color]

With a \ but I doubt that's the problem.
[color=blue]
> I tried putting a backslash in front of
> each angle bracket, but that doesn't seem to work (same error).[/color]

That's because it's not PHP.

Try this: $callthis = preg_replace("/<[^>]*>/", "", $callthis);
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> The purpose of the statement is to remove HTML tags from the string.[/color]

Try using the strip_tags() function: http://www.php.net/strip_tags

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[Mxsmanic]

Re: How do I escape angle brackets?

Ken Robinson writes:
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> That doesn't look like any PHP code that I know.[/color]

Doesn't PHP support substitution with regular expressions?

I'm always getting confused between Perl and PHP.
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> Use the function strip_tags() to strip HTML from strings.[/color]

Thanks, I'll do that instead.

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[Mxsmanic]

Re: How do I escape angle brackets?

Chris Hope writes:
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> Looks like Perl to me.[/color]

It would work in Perl. Doesn't PHP support regular expressions? I can
never remember which language supports what.
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> Try using the strip_tags() function: http://www.php.net/strip_tags[/color]

Done, and it works. Thanks.

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[Chris Hope]

Re: How do I escape angle brackets?

Mxsmanic wrote:
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> Chris Hope writes:
>[color=green]
>> Looks like Perl to me.[/color]
>
> It would work in Perl. Doesn't PHP support regular expressions? I
> can never remember which language supports what.[/color]

Yes, PHP does support regular expressions. I gave you the code for it.
Here it is again:

$callthis = preg_replace("/<[^>]*>/", "", $callthis);

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[n]

Re: How do I escape angle brackets?

Mxsmanic wrote:[color=blue]
> Ken Robinson writes:
>
>[color=green]
>>That doesn't look like any PHP code that I know.[/color]
>
>
> Doesn't PHP support substitution with regular expressions?
>
> I'm always getting confused between Perl and PHP.
>
>[color=green]
>>Use the function strip_tags() to strip HTML from strings.[/color]
>
>
> Thanks, I'll do that instead.
>[/color]

I just wanted to add that the code looks like perl.

T

[greyfade@gmail.com]

Re: How do I escape angle brackets?


Mxsmanic wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a line like this in some PHP code on my Web page:
>
> $callthis =~ s/<[^>]*>//g;
>
> When the page runs, I get this error:
>
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected '<' in /Feedback.php on line 145
>[/color]
this is because you've tried to use a PERL expression. in PHP, you'd
do something more like this:

$callthis = preg_replace("\ <[^\>]*\>","",$callth is);

but as another poster mentioned, PHP already has a function for the
purpose you specified.

hope that clears things up for you.