Rent A Coder - A PCRE in PHP

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A PCRE in PHP
Bid Request Id: 41647

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Posted by:	caw (8 ratings) (Software buyer rating 10)
Non-action Ratio:	Very Good - 18.18%
Buyer Security Verifications:	Excellent
Approved on:	Dec 30, 2002 7:33:20 PM EDT
Bidding Closes:	Jan 4, 2003 EDT
Viewed (by coders):	81 times
Deadline:	1/4/2003 TIME EXPIRED

Phase:	100% of work completed and accepted. Coder has been paid.
Max Accepted Bid:	Bidding is closed
Project Type:	Very Small Business Project: under $100 (USD)
Bidding Type:	Open Auction
Categories:	Perl, PHP

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Description:
Easy one for those who know regex's well! If I have a big long string that basically contains a messy HTML page, I want to strip out:
1: All HTML comments
2: All javascript comments
3: All whitespace than can be removed

.. without breaking anything. It sounds easy enough, but there's some odd quirks that make it more challenging than I want to handle :) See the full spec for the way I see it...

Cheers, C

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Easy one for those who know regex's well! If I have a big long string that basically contains a messy HTML page, I want to strip out:

1: All HTML comments
2: All javascript comments
3: All whitespace than can be removed

Here's the HTML comments regex:

preg_replace('/;/', '', $buffer);

Problem 1: If you follow that and you know HTML, you'll know that it's great unless you're inside a tag pair that uses comments to protect its content from older browser that don't understand (most common I guess being {script} and {style} tags.

Problem 2: Javascript comments that might appear after a line of code, not on their own - eg:

var problemVar; // this variable is commented

Problem 3: Whitespace that appears inside {pre} tags needs to remain untouched (I don't know if there's any others like that).

Those are the problems that I can think of, there might be more - notice the brief says "without breaking anything"! :)

Nice regex problems if anyone fancies them anyway :)

1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.

2) Complete ownership and distribution copyrights to all work purchased.

Platform:
PHP / Linux / use PCRE's, not PHP's own regex stuff

Must be 100% finished and received by buyer on:
Jan 4, 2003 EDT
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UP
(6 ratings)
in Karachi, Sindh
Pakistan
Bid id: 451,274

$10 (USD) Dec 31, 2002
8:36:32 AM EDT 4.16
(Below Average)

I like the challenge in this job and would like to take this job because of its challenging complexities.

Will be able to complete it before Jan 4.

Sincerely.

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