I'm running a script that at one point will collect <img> tags from
some html. I've been using the following:

preg_match_all("/<img .*?>/",$html,$images);

and I thought it was working well. However, I've notice that some
things i throw at it don't work properly. It seems to be that and
image tag closing itself with "/>" doesn't work, ie <img src=".....
" /
>. I'm guessing the "/" character is delimiting the regex somehow.

Admittedly I know very little about regular expressions. Anyone know
whats going on and the best way to get all the image tags? I ideally
would like the whole thing, from the <img to the final closing bracket

Hi,

If the tag spans multiple lines you'll need the dot all option (insert
an s after the last / delimiter).

Regards,

John Peters

On Feb 27, 8:35 pm, dysfunct <Dysfunct...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running a script that at one point will collect <img> tags from
> some html. I've been using the following:
>
> preg_match_all("/<img .*?>/",$html,$images);
>
> and I thought it was working well. However, I've notice that some
> things i throw at it don't work properly. It seems to be that and
> image tag closing itself with "/>" doesn't work, ie <img src=".....
> " /
>
> >. I'm guessing the "/" character is delimiting the regex somehow.
>
> Admittedly I know very little about regular expressions. Anyone know
> whats going on and the best way to get all the image tags? I ideally
> would like the whole thing, from the <img to the final closing bracket