html - PHP regex pattern not identifying closing bracket for tag -

html - PHP regex pattern not identifying closing bracket for tag -

i have text area of text can perchance contain tags in them. need identify these tags specific string of text in src attribute ("/storyimages/") , delete them. instance, if have text

<br><img src="/storyimages/myimage.jpg" align="right" width="105" height="131"><b>(cns) </b>lorem ipsum dolor...

i want rid of whole tag , replace ''. regex pattern i'm trying utilize

/<img src=.*\/storyimages\/.*>/

but it's not working. happens identifies start of string ok, it's not identifying closing > character, if utilize preg_match(), match starts .

i know you're not supposed utilize regex on html, isn't embedded tags; it's 1 tag in midst of bunch of text, should ok. can see, > isn't special character, if escape it, still same result.

is there simple i'm missing create work? or need write sort of function loops on string character character find positions of open , close brackets , replace them?

the interesting thing when seek regex tester, works fine, when run code, problem described above.

thanks.

use <img src=.*?\/storyimages\/.*?> regex.

the main point using *? quanitifier create matching non-greedy (i.e. match to the lowest degree matching characters possible).

here sample php code:

$re = "/<img src=.*?\\/storyimages\\/.*?>/"; $str = "<br><img src=\"/storyimages/myimage.jpg\" align=\"right\" width=\"105\" height=\"131\"><b>(cns) </b>lorem ipsum dolor..."; preg_match($re, $str, $matches);

the match <img src="/storyimages/myimage.jpg" align="right" width="105" height="131">.

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