regular expressions

[PeteB]

Hey all!

eregi("<COLUMNS>([.]+)</COLUMNS>", $v, $columns);

I'm trying to have PHP scan $v and return the portion of $v that contains <COLUMNS>foo</COLUMNS>. The data contained between <COLUMNS> and </COLUMNS> can be anything really (including tabs, etc) ... so eregi("<COLUMNS>([[:alnum:]]+)</COLUMNS>", $v, $columns); won't work.

I'm not too good with regexp, so I was hoping for some assistance.

Thanks in advance.

[move3rd]

I dont see a problem with the code you have but I'm no expert either.

I use (.+) in one of my scripts which works fine.

eregi("<COLUMNS>(.+)</COLUMNS>", $v, $columns);