Re: eregi help for <body...></body>

By using (.*), you're matching anything from 0 to any number of times. It's not going to stop until it gets to the end of the string, even if you wanted it to match the closing slant bracket (>) after that pattern. You have to specify exactly what it's allowed to match before it breaks and starts the next pattern (set of parens). Try this: function inStringSub($string) { ereg("(<body[_\L='\".#\L 0-9a-zA-Z-]*>)(.*)(</body>)",$string,$result); return($result[2]); } You might want to keep this handy as a reference: http://www.thunderstone.com/doc/rexlong.html Good luck! Toby Butzon [ criticism spurs improvement ] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeremy Simon" <jeremy@safessl.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:00 PM Subject: [PHP] eregi help for <body...></body> : I need some help with with trying to eregi a file for the <body : bgcolor="#000000"> to the </body>. : : : My basic code will search for the <body> tag to the </body> tag and return : it. The problem is that I don't have just a simple <body> tag I have a <body : bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF">. I need a way to have it search for the : "<body" to the first ">" then go the (.*)</body>. : : : <--Begin Paste ---> : : : function inStringSub($string) { : eregi("<body(.*)</body>",$string,$result); : return($result[1]); : : } : : <---End Paste ---> : : : -- : PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) : To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net : For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net : To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net : :