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[Dan Cech]

On 1/12/2011 8:24 AM, Randal Rust wrote:
> I am admittedly not very good with regular expressions. I am trying to
> pull all of the paragraphs out of an article, so that I can create
> inline links. Here is my script:
>
> $blockpattern='/<p*[^>]*>.*?<\/p>/';
> $blocks=preg_match_all($blockpattern, $txt, $blockmatches);
>
> This returns 0.

Shouldn't the expression be:

$blockpattern='/<p[^>]*>.*?<\/p>/';

I removed the * after the first p.

Dan