PHP regular expression

[orion_rus]

Hello world,
I have to ask you about preg_replace
i need to change <table> -> [table] and </table> -> [/table]
can i make it both in a one expression?
Thanks in advance!

[DanA]

You can try this :
$test="<table>anytext</table>";
$patterns=array("/<table>/","/<\/table>/");
$replacements=array("[table]","[/table]");
$test=preg_replace($patterns,$replacements,$test);

[ergophobe]

Because </table> just is what it is, I would just use a str_replace().

For table, presumably you want something that can catch
<table class="someclass">

In that case, a pattern like

$pattern = '/<(table([^><]*>/U';

should work.

[orion_rus]

Thanks for answers!
It works great!

[killroy]

if u want a single pattern and replace for both jsut use this pattern:

\<(/?table(?: [^>]*))\>

and replace with <$1>

SN