regular expressions SUCK!! plz help

[morrisoner]

does anyone know why this regular expression

{^{http://www.sydneyroosters.com.au/surveys/display.php\?FanID\=[&]+?&Email\=[&]+?&SurveyID\=12$}}

doesnt match this string

http://www.sydneyroosters.com.au/surveys/display.php?FanID=126680&Email=[e-mail]&SurveyID=12

??????
edit: dont parse URLs

[Weedpacket]

Works for me (even with the extra \s before the : and =s),

$string='http://www.sydneyroosters.com.au/surveys/display.php?FanID=126680&Email=[e-mail]&SurveyID=12';

$regexp = '{^http://www\.sydneyroosters\.com\.au/surveys/display\.php\?FanID=[^&]+?&Email=[^&]+?&SurveyID=12$}';

preg_match($regexp,$string,$m);
print_r($m);

but wouldn't [man]parse_url[/man] and [man]parse_str[/man] make things a lot simpler?