Re: Regular Expression Problem

At 1/24/2007 02:27 PM, Richard Luckhurst wrote:

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> I would have expected preg_match to have matched from the first <flight through to the first </flight>.

At 1/24/2007 02:55 PM, Jochem Maas wrote:

<accent voice="pirate">

        you be needing an ungreedy modifier on yer regex.

</accent> see here: http://php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php

You can also ask regexp to return the text up to but not including the next '<':

        #<flight [^<]+#

'<flight ' followed by one or more characters that aren't '<'. Regards, Paul __________________________ Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com