Hi. Please could you advise me... I have php pages that are stored in a mysql database, that will later be imported into a cms I want to use mysql's regex funtion to remove unwanted php code and update links to images and urls. But i cant seem to get my brian around the regex part ... i want to remove the header include <?php require("./include/header1");?> i tried <\?php[^>][header1].*\?> , and other attempts but no luck .. unfortunetly i can do a normal string replace because of varations,in the code ... Many Thanks -- Gregory Machin greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx gregory.machin@xxxxxxxxx www.linuxpro.co.za Web Hosting Solutions Scalable Linux Solutions www.iberry.info (support and admin) www.goeducation (support and admin) +27 72 524 8096