Whats the php or perl expression to match a string? Like, How to find a string which begins with <p align="right"><em>digital and ends with align="right" /></a> I tried <p align="right"><em>digital*align="right" /></a> or /<p align="right"><em>Sponsor(.*?)align="right" /></a>/ don't work at all. reference: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html Thanks!