Question

so I have the following code:

$tag = 'script';
$r = '#(<'.$tag.'.*?>).*?(</'.$tag.'>)#';
echo $r;

but then when it echoes, it merely echoes this: #().*?()#

not even the ‘script’ is being echoed…..and notice that the less than equal sign, etc are not there…

what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

do view source to see why.
It will probbably be:

#(<script.*?>).*?(</script>)#';

Which each browser will display as

#().*?()#

As it hides any XML tags from the parsed view, i.e hides the <script.*?> and the </script>
which can be seen, though, in the unparsed version->view source