Problems with Regular Expressions

[sicherheitsnade]

Hi,

I want to solve a problem using regex but somehow things won't work the way I want them to...

I have a text I'm extracting from a webpage e.g.:

<table>
<tr>
   <td>Informations</td>
   <td>Informations</td>
   <td>Informations</td>
</tr>
<tr>
   <td>Informations</td>
   <td>Informations</td>
   <td>Informations</td>
</tr>
</table>

I want to read the Informations into Variables using regex
As a first step I'm intending to read everything between the <tr> and </tr> tags into a variable

using the expression:
CODE(.*)(</tr>)[/CODE]

my problem is that php seems to look for the longest possible in this case it returns:

<tr>
   <td>Informations</td>
   <td>Informations</td>
   <td>Informations</td>
</tr>
<tr>
   <td>Informations</td>
   <td>Informations</td>
   <td>Informations</td>
</tr>

How can I specify to search for the very next ccurence of </tr> instead of the last?

I know there is this \G flag but I couldn't get it working

[leatherback]

What are you using for matching? preg_match, preg_match_all ?

J

[Weedpacket]

There's a /G flag? I thought it was /U. At least, that's what's given in the manual. There's also a ? operator modifier.

[sicherheitsnade]

I solved it using substr and strpos...

the traditional way