regular expressions

I'm having difficulty with a simple regular expresssion and need some help:

I am Trying to get the following string from an html file: VALUE="iar:4987">

The code below returns no values for $regs[0] or $regs [1]

//($result is the html file)

eregi("value.+",$result, $regs)) ;
echo $regs[0];
echo $regs[1];

I'd really appreciate any help

Thanks

Hmm..

why don't you put the '>' after the plus sign:

eregi("value.+>",$result, $regs);
This will get you:
VALUE="iar:4987">

or you can do this:
eregi("value.+\">", $result, $regs);
This will get you:
VALUE="iar:4987"

hope it works :-)

-sridhar

Thanks for the help.. that works. Is it possible to return just the numeric portion of that string, or would I need to use an explode() function?

Thanks again