REGULAR EXPRESSION HELP

Hi, I'm pretty new to regular expressions. Before, I used to write long-winded and buggy segments of code with PHPs string functions to extract text. But I want to learn how to use perl reg-ex as it seems useful to know so I ordered "Mastering Regular Expressions". But it hasn't come yet so I'm asking for help... I need to match a pattern, not in a single-line but from a HTML page, which obviously has loads of lines. I need to match 2 lines from this HTML page: 1) <HTML><TITLE>FirstVariable - Second Variable</TITLE></HTML>........ 2) <TABLE><TD><TR>(newline) ThirdVariable</TR></TD></TABLE>... I tried this code: 1) preg_match("/<HTML><TITLE>(\S+) - (\S+)</TITLE></HTML>/", $html_page, $variables); 2) preg_match("/<TABLE><TD><TR>\n(\S+)</TR></TD></TABLE>/", $html_page, $variables); The first 2 variables are matched into the $variables array but not the third one. Sometimes when the third one is matched, it starts from where I want it to start but takes all the text to the end of the HTML document! Any ideas? Is there any characters that I should have escaped that I didn't?? All I can think of is that because the first line that I want to match is on the FIRST LINE of the html page, that matches. But reg-ex can't handle the next line as its way down the page???? TIA