Posted by David Gillen on 07/06/06 10:50

An noise sounding like trihanhcie@gmail.com said:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to extract the text in an HTML file
> For the moment, I'm trying to get all text between <td> and </td>. I
> used a regular expression because i don't know the "format between
><td> and </td>
>
> It can be :
><td> text1 </td>
> or
><td>
> text1
></td>
> or anything else
>
> eregi("<td(.*)>(.*)(</td>?)",$text,$regtext);
>
> The problem is that, if I have
><td> text</td>
><td>text2</td>
>
> regtext will return text</td><td>text2.
>
> How can I change the expression so that it stops at the first occurence
> of </td>?
>
Greedy regex, the .* is matching as much as possible. To make it non-greedy
put in .*? the ? in this instance modified the behaviour of the .* so it will
try and match the smallest amount possible within the constraints of the
overall regex.

Regards,
D.
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