hi i have the text in the database

$text= i am looking <BR> to you about 2 hour's before

and now i want the output
output = i am looking to you about 2 hour's before


if i use the preg_replace('<BR>', "", $text) then it shows the result like this
output= i am looking <> to you about 2 hour's before

if i use the htmlspecialchars($text); then it remove the <br> tag but also remove (hour's) and change it with special codes..

can any one solve my problem

Regards
Faisal Zafar

Try escaping the quotes as it's an HTML tag, so the code should look like this:

preg replace(\"<BR>\","",$text);

not too sure about it though as I havent' been dealing with PHP databasing yet.

Why would you want to use preg_replace for that? Just use str_replace('<BR>', '', $text)

If you really want ti use preg_replace however (which is slower), use preg_replace("\<BR\>", "", $text)

You are right in saying tha you should use str_replace as this is a simple replacement, but the reason it wasn't working was because the preg functions require pattern delimeters on the ends of the pattern. Preg_replace was taking < and > to be your delimeters and not part of the pattern.

preg_replace("#<BR>#', "",$text) should work.

The pattern delimeters can be any symbol as described here:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php

I usually use # because it doesn't turn up in the rest of the pattern very often. The traditional one is / but that gets incredibly confusing with all the other / and \ that can turn up in pathnames and urls.

Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.