[PHP] How to make ereg non greedy?

[azizny]

Greetings,

I am starting to work on PHP regular expressions.

I have titles in a page enclose by <getname>XXXX</getname>.

When i try to get a title form a page which has 1 title it works, but if it has more than one title, it goes on reading the rest of the page.

I am using this expression:

$name_pat[0] = "<getname>(.+)</getname>";

I would appreciate any help, and if there is any other ways (better to do it).

When I do it with the prices:

$price_pat[0] = "<getprice>(.[0-9]+.[0-9]+)</getprice>";

it works just fine.

Peace,

[azizny]

ok fixed that..

need to know how to match newline character

[azizny]

ok I got that..

but I am having a hard time getting ALL Puncuations Except the $ sign..

e.g.: [[😛UNC:]] but not the $

Thanks,

[Weedpacket]

Why not skip ereg() and go on to preg_match()? That's got everything ereg() has and quite a bit more - including ungreedy matching by adding a single character.

As for all punctuation except $. Well, if you don't want to construct the character class by hand (and risk missing some punctuation or letting some non-punctuation slip through) you could replace

[[:punct:]]

with
code[/code] which will only match the next punctuation character if it is not a $.