Re: Regular Expression Problem

# rluckhurst@resmaster.com / 2007-01-25 09:27:59 +1100: > <flights> > <flight flightId="19417361" addAdtPrice="0.0" > addChdPrice="0.0" addInfPrice="0.0"> > <legXRefs> > <legXRef legId="23862812" > class="V"></legXRef> > <legXRef legId="23862813" > class="V"></legXRef> > </legXRefs> > </flight> > <flight flightId="19417360" addAdtPrice="0.0" > addChdPrice="0.0" addInfPrice="0.0"> > <legXRefs> > <legXRef legId="23862810" > class="V"></legXRef> > <legXRef legId="23862811" > class="V"></legXRef> > </legXRefs> > </flight> > </flights> > > > What I am trying to do is extract the first <flight ..... /flight> chunk. > preg_match('#<flight .*\/flight>#', $xml_string,$matches); > $tempstr = $matches[0]; > > What I actually get in $tempstr is everything from the first <flight through to > the last (second) </flight> Strange, you should have gotten nothing: s (PCRE_DOTALL) If this modifier is set, a dot metacharacter in the pattern matches all characters, including newlines. Without it, newlines are excluded. > I would have expected preg_match to have matched from the first <flight through > to the first </flight>. As Jochem wrote, you also need U (PCRE_UNGREEDY). -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991