In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("scott [gts]") wrote:
> preg_match('/<blah(.*?)>/', $text, $matches)
>
> in the case of perl regexp's, you have to specifically
> tell the regexp not to be greedy. the "?" regexp modifier
> is how you do this. (otherwise, the regexp will try and
> match the maximum amount of text that it can, which
> usually isnt what you want, since it'll match *eveything*
> between "blah" and the last occurance of ">" in the text)
More ways to achieve the same effect, using the "U" modifier to invert the
greediness of a regex expression or sub-expression:
preg_match('/<blah(.*)>/U', $text, $matches)
preg_match('/<blah(.*?U)>/', $text, $matches)
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