Regular Expression Q

• morphinelips

  I have a decent understanding of regular expressions as used in perl, or in my case in a preg_replace function in php. I am using the following code:

  $pattern = '#(.+?)#';

  To take out the contents of an href tag. The problem is, when I have embedded code such as:

  bla
  bla
  bla

  The (.+?) swallows up all of the code until the last . Does anyone know a reg ex expression that will stop when it encounters the first

  Thanks!

  morphinelips

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• morphinelips0

  the Reg Ex didn't come out so good. basically the question is concerning the (.+?) part, does anyone know who to make the (.+?) stop gobbling up the string when it encounters the first end tag, instead of the last one?

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