Help with Regular Expression

benny_g

Hi,

I need a little help with a regular expression. I'm loading an html page into a string and searching through the string to replace sections of code.

Example page to search:

I would like to search through the page for '', followed by any radom text, followed by the first instance of ''

My current regualar expression finds the first part and the random text but matches the last instance of '' instead of the first.

I am cuurently using "(.*()$";

How do I get it to match just "blar blar blar</h1>" and not all sections at once?

Thanks

Ben.

devinemke

<?
$string = '
blah blah blah
<!-- area_start name="one" -->this is text in area one<!-- area_end --> 
<!-- area_start name="two" -->this is text in area two<!-- area_end --> 
<!-- area_start name="three" -->this is text in area three<!-- area_end --> 
blah blah blah
';

$explode = explode('<!-- area_start name="one" -->', $string);
$explode = explode('<!-- area_end -->', $explode[1]);
echo $explode[0];
?>