Grabing string patterns in PHP

I am trying to grab <select , </select> and everything in between.

I tried using regular expressions but this did not work in php! It does work in perl.

$search = eregi("(<select.*?</select>)", $read, $printing);

How would I do it in PHP??

Please Help!
-Mark

Did you try using that with the perl regular expression functions in PHP? If it works in Perl then it should work with the preg functions.

How would you write the following line with the preg function?

$search = eregi("(<select.*?</select>)", $read, $printing);

Thanks

-Mark