[DAL]

Cant seem to find any help with this and I'm no good with regexpression but this was my attempt

PHP Code:

//ie [^<]/

$result = preg_replace('/[^<]\//', '', $subject); 

I need to replace all instances of / forward slash except where they are inside angle brackets ie </span> </div>

The above for some reason almost does it but regexbuddy highlights the letter before the backslash too (I cant see why it would do that: highlight all "/" except [^] when its not an "<" I dont see the oh and can you highlight the previous letter to that too, thanks )

Any suggestions?

Cheers
Dal

[Nico]

PHP Code:

'~(?<!<)/~' 

Look around.

[DAL]

Thanks Nico, I've never come across that expression before in my regexbuddy. The site looks good too.

regexbuddy says : The regular expression does not match the test subject but after trying it in my code it worked! So regexbuddy is not that good, can you recommend any other application that would help me build expressions?

Thanks very much, lifesaver!
Dal