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

Thanks Sven, You are quite right with your "some probs" comment. Do you know what the the switch is that catches only the least result? I now get (0)= (0)=[<fieldset attribute="hello"><legend>hello legend</legend>content of hello</fieldset><em>blah</em><fieldset attribute="goodbye">goodbye</fieldset>] (1)= (0)=[ attribute="hello"] (2)= (0)=[<legend>hello legend</legend>content of hello</fieldset><em>blah</em><fieldset attribute="goodbye">goodbye] as we can see the second fieldset is included in that which is between the fieldset tags! :-( Thanks everyone for you help including Mike (with the post out of chain). Henry "Sven" <svenie@gmx.li> wrote in message news:403B67FB.3090806@gmx.li... > Henry Grech-Cini schrieb: > ... > >> $regexp="/<fieldset([^>]*)>[^(<\/fieldset>)]*/i"; > ... > >>$result=extractFieldsets('test<fieldset attribute="hello">content > >>of > >>hello</fieldset><em>blah</em><fieldset > >>attribute="goodbye">goodbye</fieldset>'); > ... > >>And it produced; > >>(0)= > >>(0)=[<fieldset attribute="hello">con] > >>(1)=[<fieldset attribute="goodbye">goo] > >>(1)= > >>(0)=[ attribute="hello"] > >>(1)=[ attribute="goodbye"] > > hi, > > as it is defined in regex-spec: a '^' inside a char-group '[...]' > defines all chars, that aren't allowed, and not a string! > > so the first 't' of 'content' and the 'd' of 'goodbye' > don't match your > regex anymore. > > a start for a solution could be: > > <?php > $rx = '/<fieldset[^>]*>(.*)<\/fieldset>/i'; > ?> > > if you want to take care of your fieldset-attribs in your result, you > can set your brackets again: ([^>]*) > > some probs i can think of are nested fieldsets inside fieldsets (don't > know by head, if this is allowed by w3). and another prob: is that you > don't catch multiple fieldsets after another. i think there is a switch, > that catches only the least result. > > hth SVEN