Re: Help with simple regular expression

That's because POSIX is greedy. Or Perl is greedy. Whatever. When one of them does that, use the other one. Instead of eregi, use pregi. Disclaimer: What I know about Regex could fit in a matchbook. -- WARNING richard@zend.com address is an endangered species -- Use ceo@l-i-e.com Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aral Balkan" <aral@aralbalkan.com> Newsgroups: php.general Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 7:34 PM Subject: [PHP] Help with simple regular expression > Hi all, > > I'm trying to match the body tag in an HTML file (eg. <body > bgcolor="ffffgg">) with the following regular expression and eregi: > > <body.*> > > Unfortunately it matches everything from the body tag onwards and doesn't > stop at the greater-than sign. It should be simple thing but I'm stumped! To > me the regex reads match string that begins with <body followed by zero or > more of anything and ending with a greater-than sign. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! :) > > Aral > ______________________________ > (aral@kismia.com) > New Media Producer, Kismia, Inc. > (aral@american.edu) > Adj. Prof., American University > ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ > > > > -- > 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 >