Help in Searching with Regular Expression

[rehan]

Hi to all,
My aim is to pickup the substring from the $test between <p> & </p> and having word "code" inside.

I m using following code::

$test = "before<p>my code is yyyyyyyyXH99</p><p>This is second line</p>after";
print strlen($test);print"<br>";
print eregi( "<p>.code.</p>" ,$test,$array);
print "<br>\$array[0] :: $array[0]";

I m getting the following output::

62
56
$array[0] ::
my code is yyyyyyyyXH99

This is second line

I dont wana "This is second line" in my output

[ctimmer]

'.*' is a greedy match, it consumes as many characters as it can and still match the expression.

Try changing this to '.*?'