Perl compatible regular expressions

[Anon]

Hi,

I was forced to use PCRE because it supports non-greedy regular expressions, but this

preg_match("|<MYTAG>(.*)</MYTAG>|U","<MYTAG>hello</MYTAG>",$matches)

should (as I understand it) give the following result:

$matches[0]="<MYTAG>hello</MYTAG>"
$matches[1]="hello"

but I get:

$matches[0]="hello"
$matches[1]="hello"

Do anybody know why that is?
I'm using PHP 4.0.6 and PCRE Library Version 3.4.

Thanks in advance, Morten

[Anon]

Shouldn't the expression read:

("|(<MYTAG>.*</MYTAG>)|U","<MYTAG>hello</MYTAG>",$matches)

If you want to capture the tags as well?
I haven't tried this by the way but I think this is the problem.

Regards
torrent
www.ski-info-online.com

[marcel]

:-)
just do : `View Source' on your browser...

the probleme is that
<MYTAG> is interpreted as an HTML tag...
in an unknown and will be ignored...
the same for </MYTAG>

PM

[Anon]

Thanks marcel,

Isn't life wonderful sometimes?
/Morten