regex non matching tags

[andytwiz]

Hi

I wish to modify the following code to return tags that do NOT match

e.g. <b> hjfdhskdfkjsd </a>

$html = "<b>bold text</b><a href=howdy.html>click me</a>";
preg_match_all("/(<([\w]+)[^>]*>)(.*)(<\/\\2>)/", $html, $matches);

I thought I'd just ened to try: (<\/^\\2>) adding the ^ before the \\2 referencing the second ( ) but this doesnt seem to work. Any hints?

Cheers

[edited by: coopster at 8:06 pm (utc) on Mar. 30, 2005]
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[coopster]

Pretty big undertaking. Have you considered the Tidy Functions [php.net]?