eregi_replace and regular expressions

Hello all, I am trying to add html code using php on the fly while uploading web pages to our database. All of my replace functions seem to work well except one. I am trying to add a <table> tag after the body tag. It is easy to find the body tag because there is only one "<body" in an html document. I am having a terrible time trying to find the end of the tag because it has unknown length and contents, but it does end with a ">". So here is what I've tried: $filedata = eregi_replace("<body(.*)>","<body\\1><table border=0 width='80%'>",$filedata); This line of code happily adds the <table border=0 width='80%'> at the end of the document. eregi_replace uses a case insensitive matching. The reg exp is matching the entire $filedata rather than stopping at the first ">" after "<body". How do I get it to stop at the first ">" after "<body"? What am I doing wrong? Thank you, -- Eric Dean eric-dean@uiowa.edu Chief Curator, Office of Visual Materials School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa