[RESOLVED] simple regular expression using delimiters help

[SeenGee]

Hi,

I am trying to put together a very simple regular expression that will return a string that is contained between two delimiters, in this case starting with < (a sinlge lesser than) and ending with > (a single greater than)

in the result i want to return just everything between but not including those characters.

i put this together:

if (preg_match('/(<(.*?)>)/i', $email, $regs)) {
$result = $regs[0];
}

but this also returns the two delimiters, what am i doing wrong ?

[SeenGee]

solution off another forum.

if(preg_match("/<(.*?)>/si",$email,$matches))
{
      $result = $matches[1];
}