Re: Grabbing

I guess the ereg() will stop when i reads a new line character, therefore try to use the preg_match() with /is modifiers. preg_match("/$begin(.*?)$end", $search, $matches); "Daniel alsén" <d@mindbash.com> wrote in message news:PGEGIELINOCCEHLENIOJEENNCCAA.d@mindbash.com... > Hi, > > iam trying to grab info from a webpage. > > This snippet is the part that does the actual searching... > > $site = "www.whatever.com/something.html"; > $open = fopen($site, "r"); > $search = fread($open, 20000); > fclose($open); > $search = ereg("$begin(.*)$end", $search, $content); > > What i find strange is that the search only works on the actual text in the > html-document. It doesn´t seem to be able to use htmltags as $begin or $end. > > And another question: does the "search" of $end begins from $begin? Or does > it scan the whole document for both strings? > > Regards > # Daniel Alsén | www.mindbash.com # > # d@mindbash.com | +46 704 86 14 92 # > # ICQ: 63006462 | # >