I have a CMS which is written to output xhtml.  I am trying to write a php script that will convert the system - completely and permanently - to output html instead.  The sticking point is creating a regex to find self-closing xhtml tags (e.g., <img /> ) and convert them to non-self-closing html tags (e.g., <img>).  I am ...

Hi regex experts, I’m searching for a regular expression for PHP’s preg_replace() in order to adjust concatenated strings (no multi-line). These strings are fragments in German which form a sentence and therefore need to be (automatically) edited to adhere to grammar conventions. Roughly speaking, the regular expression should ...

I've been trying to match the pattern below for about a week and can't seem to get it right. I need to match a specific string that is not hyper-linked or enclosed in brackets.I'm sure the code below won't match what i need. It's simply to illustrate what i'm aiming to accomplish: [^\{] word here[^\} ]  Any ...

Thanks again Sergei. I found the solution, your regex was perfect, it's just a PHP oddity. This page on php.net: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php describes pre_replace and c_stewart0a at yahoo dot com had the solution which is: "you will want to quote your searching expression with /" This did the job. So ...