using PCRE to replace everything between 2 words ungreedy.

[james438]

like the long title says. How do you use PCRE to replace everything between two words like "have" and "not" in the following

$string = "the have and the havenots. Yet the haves are not there.";

so that $string becomes

"the s. Yet the there.";

as always, this is not really important, but I am curious
thanks.

PS is this the right place for posting PCRE questions? It is sort of PHP and sort of not. Maybe I should post these questions in the 'Other scripting/ coding related discussions.' forum?

[Twey]

Good a forum as any... you'd do it like this:

$string = preg_replace('/have.*?not ?/', '', $string);

[james438]

Awesome, thanks for the info I was scanning google and just not finding the answer anywhere.