06-20-2008
Search Replace with regular expressions
Hello
I have this regular expression:
</book>(?:\n)<collection>(.*)</collectioninfo>
And I have this peace of text on a FILE
<book bookid="3" title="the title 3" remaining = "50" price="100">
<reader readerid="1"><![CDATA[John]]></reader>
<reader readerid="2"><![CDATA[Michael]]></reader>
<reader readerid="3"><![CDATA[Peter]]></reader>
<reader readerid="4"><![CDATA[Maria]]></reader>
</book>
<collectioninfo id="123">
<title>colletion 1</title>
<date>Jun 19 11:00</date>
<type>2</type>
<limit>100</limit>
</collectioninfo>
<book bookid="4" title="the title 4" remaining = "50" price="100">
<reader readerid="1"><![CDATA[John]]></reader>
<reader readerid="2"><![CDATA[Michael]]></reader>
<reader readerid="3"><![CDATA[Peter]]></reader>
<reader readerid="4"><![CDATA[Maria]]></reader>
</book>
And i need replace the text in BOLD for:
</book>
So... using PHP how can I do that ... but saving the result in the same file..
I mean.. replace the current text on a file.. for the new one..
Thx.
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