Good day, The problem here is with the .* expression, which matches any character, including > . The regex is "greedy" and will try and match as much as it possibly can.
What you could do is change it so that it doesn't match > . Then, the > will be matched later in the expression,, as you want. So, [^>]* instead of .* should do it, I believe. ============================ Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 -----Original Message----- From: Wakan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] regular expression Hi, Can you help me on this simple regexp? I've this string: $testata = "<tr bgcolor=\"#FF9900\" valign=\"middle\"><td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\" height=\"11\"><div align=\"left\" class=\"titoliblu\">NEWS A ROTAZIONE</div></td><td class=\"titolipiccolibianchi\" align=\"center\" height=\"11\" width=\"10%\">cancella</td></tr>"; and this eregi: eregi("^<tr(.*)>(.*)</tr>$",$header,$regs); In this way I'd like to obtain the properties of the row (ie: bgcolor=\"#FF9900\" valign=\"middle\") and all the columns in the row (the content of each pair <td>...</td>). I'm expecting to have this: in $reg[1]: bgcolor=\"#FF9900\" valign=\"middle\" in $reg[2]: <td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\" height=\"11\"><div align=\"left\" class=\"titoliblu\">NEWS A ROTAZIONE</div></td><td class=\"titolipiccolibianchi\" align=\"center\" height=\"11\" width=\"10%\">cancella</td> Instead I''ve this: $reg[1]: bgcolor=\"#FF9900\" valign=\"middle\"><td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\" height=\"11\"><div align=\"left\" class=\"titoliblu\">NEWS A ROTAZIONE</div></td><td class=\"titolipiccolibianchi\" align=\"center\" height=\"11\" width=\"10%\">cancella</td ie the last ">" was found, but I'd like the FIRST one!! Can someone give me a solution? Thanks, Carlo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
