using RegEx to get the values of an option list

I've been banging my head on this one for a while...did a few searches on the web and here at DP forums, but I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong (aside from attempting this with very little knowledge of regex and php).

I have a CURL-ed page. There's an option list that I want to parse. Here's a section of code;

<option  value="employee1.lastname">Superman

<option  value="firstname.mylastname">Batman

Code (markup):

I thought something like this would do it:

preg_match_all ("/option  value=\"[^']*?\"/", $data, $matches);
foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
echo $match."<br>";
}

Code (markup):

But my results end up as:
option value="employee1.lastname"
option value="firstname.mylastname"

I only want to extra the contents BETWEEN the two double quotes.

 

Try taking out option and value then just trim or you could trim off option value=".

 

ooh...thanks. A little more Google-ing got me the syntax for ltrim.

And hex codes (/x22 /x27) for single and double quotes. (escaping the double quotes wasn't working).

Dunno if this is elegant or not, but it works for <coding idiot>me</coding idiot>

foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
$match = ltrim($match,"option values=");
$match = trim($match,"\x22\x27");
echo $match."<br>";

Code (markup):

results are now:
employee1.lastname
firstname.mylastname