Whats the perl regular expression to match a string? Like, How to find
a string which begins with
<p align="right"><em>webs
and ends with
align="right" /></a>

i tried <p align="right"><em>webs*align="right" /></a> doesn't work.

reference:
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html

thanks

I dont know anything about perl, but with php you should be able to use a regular expression like this (although regexp still isn't my strong point )

PHP Code:

"/^(<p align=\"right\"><em>webs).*(align=\"right\"></a>)$/" 


^ indicates what the match should start with, . (dot) means any character and * means zero or more of that character, $ indicates where the match should end.

^ indicates what the match should start with, . (dot) means any character and * means zero or more of that character, $ indicates where the match should end.

I'm not a regexp expert neither, but ^ and $ don't exactly means that.

In multiline mode, ^ means "beginning of the line" and $ "end of the line".
So, your pattern would need to be at the beginning of a line and to terminate the same line to be matched.

Only when you are working on a single line, does ^ and $ means what Mattias meant.

As you most likely will be using the multiline mode if you parse a full page, I'd recommend you to drop the ^ and $ characters of the regexp given the previous post.

Explode the data by
<p align="right"><em>webs
and by
align="right" /></a>
and echo something like $NewVariable[1].

It would be easier if it was something like <h1>, because you could just explode h1> (which includes <h1> and </h1>) and just echo that.

Try this
'#<p align="right"><em>webs.*align="right"><\/a>)#mi'


All / must be escaped, if You only want to test match there is no need of brackets ()
And the edining 'mi' says: multiline, case insensitive.