grab content

[playwright]

Hello!! i want to grab all content that is between the tags <-- message --> and <!--  message -->.. I have found the right pattern to do so which is something like preg_match_all('%<!-- message -->(.+)<!-- / message -->%si',$x,$y) but it seems that it grabs all content from the 1st tag <-- message --> untill the last tag <!--  message --> in one record. However, there are many more such tags between the first and the last encounter and the thing is that i want to fill my array with all this records separately..Any ideas???

[Psycho]

Your expression is greedy. Do some research for greedy vs. non-greedy regular expressions. But, the simple fix if to add a question mark as indicated to make it non-greedy:

preg_match_all('%<!-- message -->(.+?)<!-- / message -->%si',$x,$y)

[playwright]

You 're right..I used the pattern you said and it works fine now!!