express problem

Hi want to fetch:
<font style="font-weight:bold;">Chicago Cubs</font> <br/>

vs

<br />
Milwaukee Brewers

Here is my code.

			$title = '/<div class="listevent">(.*) <\/div>/';
			preg_match_all($title, $value, $mat);

PHP:

It returns me empty array, any help

<div class="list1">
	<div class="listevent"><font style="font-weight:bold;">Chicago Cubs</font> <br/>
	
		vs 
	
      <br />
      Milwaukee Brewers</div>
	<div class="listdate">March 4, 2008<br/>1:05 pm<br />
	  <!--Tuesday, 7:05 pm--></div>

	<div class="listvenue">
		<strong>Hohokam Park</strong><br />
	 Mesa, AZ	  	  </div>

Code (markup):

at started i tried to fetch:

<div class="list1">
	<div class="listevent"><font style="font-weight:bold;">Chicago Cubs</font> <br/>
	
		vs 
	
      <br />
      Seattle Mariners</div>

	<div class="listdate">March 7, 2008<br/>1:05 pm<br />
	  <!--Tuesday, 7:05 pm--></div>
	<div class="listvenue">
		<strong>Hohokam Park</strong><br />
	 Mesa, AZ	  	  </div>
	<div class="listticket">
	
	 <a href="/sports/buy_tickets/569614/" >View Tickets</a>	</div>

	<div style="clear:both;">
	<img src="/img/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" />	</div>
	
</div>

Code (markup):

but end up with only

<div class="list1">
	<div class="listevent"><font style="font-weight:bold;">Chicago Cubs</font> <br/>
	
		vs 
	
      <br />
      Milwaukee Brewers</div>
	<div class="listdate">March 4, 2008<br/>1:05 pm<br />
	  <!--Tuesday, 7:05 pm--></div>

	<div class="listvenue">
		<strong>Hohokam Park</strong><br />
	 Mesa, AZ	  	  </div>

Code (markup):

rest is missing
i used:

	$pattern = '/<div class="list(\d)">(.*)<\/div>/msU';
	preg_match_all($pattern, $data, $matche1);

PHP:

 

You are confused because of the pattern modifier and greediness.

Greedy - Will start at first <div> up to the last </div>
Ungreedy - Will start at next <div> to the next </div>

You should read about the s, m and U modifiers:

http://us2.php.net/pcre.pattern.modifiers

Peace,