Cable Forum - PHP RegEx Help

Hi all,

I have a small issue I can't seem to solve with this code that counts the number of words on a HTML page:

Code:

$PageDataStripped = $PageData; // $PageData is the source code of any HTML Page



$PageDataStripped = preg_replace("/<(.*)>/iU"," ",$PageDataStripped); //Strip out anything between < and > tags (strip_tags() not used because it seems to remove some normal  text too)

    preg_match_all("/([a-zA-Z0-9]*) /iU", $PageDataStripped, $wordCount); // Match each word on the page

// Debugging

    echo "<pre>";

    print_r($wordCount);

    echo "</pre>";

    

//Cycle the array and make sure values don't = nothing and then increase the count variable

    $wordCountfor = $wordCount[1];

    $wordsOnPage = 0;

    foreach($wordCountfor as $word){

        if(!($word == "" || $word == " " || $word == "  ")){

            $wordsOnPage++;

            echo $word." ";

        }

    }

The line in red seems to remove all of the code and replace with nothing rather than only replacing the contents of the two angle brackets. Using a RegEx helper it works fine but PHP just doesn't parse it the same.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

Andy

---------- Post added at 11:23 ---------- Previous post was at 11:11 ----------

Looks like I may have solved it (typical that eh?):

Code:

 



$PageDataStripped = $PageData;

    $PageDataStripped = preg_replace("/<script(.*)<\/script>/iU"," ",$PageDataStripped);

    //echo $PageDataStripped;

    $PageDataStripped = strip_tags($PageDataStripped);

    //$PageDataStripped = preg_replace("/<(.*)>/iU"," ",$PageDataStripped);



    preg_match_all("/([a-zA-Z0-9:;,\.\'\"\?@Â£$%&\!]*) /iU", $PageDataStripped, $wordCount);

    //echo "<pre>";

    //print_r($wordCount);

    //echo "</pre>";

    

    $wordCountfor = $wordCount[1];

    $wordsOnPage = 0;

    foreach($wordCountfor as $word){

        if(!($word == "" || $word == " " || $word == "  ")){

            $wordsOnPage++;

            echo $word." ";

        }

    }