[wplug] regex help

[John Harrold]

Sometime in January rblackwe at speakeasy.net assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| It is not advisable to roll your own regex to parse html.  Use a  module
| off CPAN to to this.

i'm assuming you are replying to russ here:

> Need some help on a PCRE regex syntax.
> 
> I"m trying to come up with the regex that will find:
> <td 'any characters'>
> 
> So it would match:
> 
> <td>
> <td class="sub">
> <td colspan=2>
> 
> etc.
> 
> I've been racking my brain with different sites trying to find the right
> regex to use with preg_replace() in PHP but can't seem to do it.
 
since he's trying to do this in php, i don't think sending him to cpan is a
real useful suggestion. i would suspect that if he was familiar with perl
and perl was an option, he wouldn't be asking about regular expressions in
php. just a thought.

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