ereg_replace

I have a large string and want to replace some substrings in it. This substrings are delimited by a pair of tags (all substrings), say: <tag> and </tag>. i.e. There is the <tag> tag at the beginning of the substring I want to replace and a </tag> tag at the end. There are several of this substrings along my large string. What I'm doing is using ereg_replace in this form: $LargeString = ereg_replace("<tag>.*</tag>", "replacement", "$LargeString"); but what I get is the string with the replacement in a way I don't actually want. It replaces the part of the string that begins with THE FIRST TAG <tag> and that ends with THE LAST TAG </tag>. How do I get the desired result?? Another way that would work for me is if i can return an array of all of the matches preg_match looks like it will do this [and then matches can be referenced by using array[1], array[2] etc. and array[0] holds ALL of the matches] however it does not seem to be working... TIA olinux __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/