Regex Matching

in Perl, i do thusly: $adtext = "This is a {test} john.smith\@mail.mainetoday.com"; $email = $1 if($adtext=~/(\{.*\})/); print "email = $email\n\n"; and i get back "email = "test". i then do thusly in PHP: $f=fopen($test_name, "r"); while(!feof($f)) { $line=fgets($f, 4096); preg_match_all("/(\{.*\})/", $line, $holes); } after this $holes contains the number of elements i expect to get back, but has no values. any ideas what i am doing wrong? :: Andrew Rush :: Lead Systems Developer :: MaineToday.com :: ************************************************************************** "Crippled but free, blind all the time, i was learning to see" - J. Garcia / R. Hunter ************************************************************************** The views expressed herein are not necessarily those of my employer, but they let me have them anyway.