Re: regexp appears to be faulty (DONT actually think so)

Hi All, I don't actually think regexp is fault. But if anyone could explain this or give me some example code that will extract the attributes and data between a "fieldset" tag pair I would be appreciated. Henry "Henry Grech-Cini" <henry@teacake.force9.co.uk> wrote in message news:20040224124017.75521.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi All, > > function extractFieldsets($subject) > { > $regexp="/<fieldset([^>]*)>[^(<\/fieldset>)]*/i"; > $replacement; > $matches=array(); > > preg_match_all($regexp, $subject, $matches); > > return ($matches); > } > > $result=extractFieldsets('test<fieldset attribute="hello">content of > hello</fieldset><em>blah</em><fieldset > attribute="goodbye">goodbye</fieldset>'); > echo "<br/>"; > foreach($result as $key=>$string) > { > echo "(".$key.")="."<br/>"; > foreach($string as $subkey=>$subres) > echo " > (".$subkey.")=[".htmlspecialchars($subres)."]<br/>"; > echo "<br/>"; > } > > And it produced; > > (0)= > (0)=[<fieldset attribute="hello">con] > (1)=[<fieldset attribute="goodbye">goo] > > (1)= > (0)=[ attribute="hello"] > (1)=[ attribute="goodbye"] > > Why did it get three letters after the end of the "fieldset" tag???? > > "con" and "goo". > > Any pointers?