Re: Need help with RegEx

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# spam@xxxxxxxx / 2006-12-11 02:02:46 -0600:
> I am having a bit of problems wrapping my head around regular expressions. I 
> thought I had a good grip on them but, for some reason, the expression I've 
> created below simply doesn't work! Basically, I need to retreive all of the 
> text between two unique and specific tags but I don't need the tag text. So 
> let's say that the tag is
> 
> <tag lang='ttt'>THIS IS A TEST</tag>
> 
> I would need to retreive THIS IS A TEST only and nothing else.
> 
> Now, a bit more information: I am using cURL to retreive the entire contents 
> of a webpage into a variable. I am then trying to perform the following 
> regular expression on the retreived text:
> 
> $trans_text = preg_match("\/<div id=result_box dir=ltr>(.+?)<\/div>/");
> 
> The problem is that when I echo the value of $trans_text variable, I end up 
> with the entire HTML of the page.

    This is hardly the code you're actually using[1], can you please
    provide a piece of real code?

    [1] int preg_match ( string pattern, string subject [, array &matches [, int flags [, int offset]]] )

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