Quoting Joe Wilson <joe.wilson at mindcandy.org>: > This doesn't seem to work for me. I ended up having to use: > > $pattern = array ("/<br \/>/", "/<b>.*<\/b>/"); > $xmlFile = preg_replace($pattern, "", $xmlFile); Committed, thanks. -chuck -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org> The alligators were there, too, in a bathtub inside the house.