regular expression matching wrong span!!!!!!

[rocksfrow]

$id = 'edit_text_2';
$match = '/<span.*?id=["]?'.$id.'["]?[^>]*>/is';

 

it's matching <span id="edit_text_1" class="edit">!

 

I think the .*? isn't working as I want, i need it to match anything BUT MUST look forward get me..so ANYTHING can be in between <span and id="edit_text_2"..in other words it should match either <span id="edit_text_2" class="edit"> OR <span class="edit" id="edit_text_2">

 

HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED!

[corbin]

$pattern = '/<span[.]*?id=["|\']?edit_text_2["|\']?[^>]*>(.*?)</span>/';

 

 

Should, if all goes well, find the content of a span with the id edit_text_2.

[sasa]

try

<?php
$text = '<span id=edit_text_2 class="edit"> OR <span class="edit" id="edit_text_2">';
$id = 'edit_text_2';
$match = '/<span [^>]*id=["\']?'.$id.'["\' ][^>]*>/is';
preg_match_all($match, $text, $out);
print_r($out);
?>

[rocksfrow]

that worked great sasa...just wondering, the ["\' ] at the end before [^>]*...what's the extra space there? could you explain why its not ["\']? like before the id?

 

thanks a ton!