How to exclude   in regex?

what I want is something like this
/&nbsp;([^&nbsp;]*?)<\/TD>/
but [^&nbsp;] not working,is there any way to slove this?thanks

 

Use \s for a single space

 

hi,thanks for your reply
I tried \s before, not working
here is the source code I want to parse

I want to get the country name,you can see there is &nbsp; before country name,that's good,but the country name United States has a space,it's different from &nbsp;,I think,so maybe I can get the country name without problem if I can find a way to exlude &nbsp;

 

Why don't you use strrchr? It should be faster than your regex. It catches the last occurance of the "needle". You can use str_(i)replace to remove the leading '&nbsp;' and the traling '</td>'.

$str = '<td class="Bold" align="CENTER">Decatur, GA&nbsp;&nbsp;30030&nbsp;&nbsp;United States</td>';
echo str_ireplace(array('&nbsp;', '</td>',), '', (strrchr($str, '&nbsp;&nbsp;')));

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thanks,bogi,I finally figure it out myself,actually exclude ; in the string &nbsp; is enough,before I thought I need to exclude &nbsp;