On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 21:45 +0200, Gregory Machin wrote: > 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 ... [header1] is a character class containing the following letters: a d e h r 1 I guess that's not what you wanted really. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>