Regexp woes.

Alright, this is something that has me somewhat stumped.

Assuming I have a string in the form of, say:

"<@>bar</e><@>text text text text </e>"

How would I match all the text UNTIL the first "</e>" and not any further?

Use [man]substr[/man] and [man]strpos[/man] like shown here. No real need for regexp.

Actually, there is. The string is part of a much larger string; it's not in constant form, either.

Obviously, I could do something like

<?php
$s = '... string from previous post ...';
$a = explode('</e>', $s);
$b = $a[0];
?>

But the actual problem requires regular expressions in order to be more flexible than simple string manipulation via the str* functions.

I still don't see it. Most people use regexp when it's uneeded overhead, but it's your choice.

<?PHP
$str = "<@foo>bar</e><@baz>text text text text </e>";
preg_match("/(.*?)<\\/e>/", $str, $matches);
$newstr = $matches[1];
echo $newstr;
?>