Stop my (simple) Reg Exp mistake

[flash gordon]

Hi
[code]
$contents = '<Template id="0" url="Templates/foo" name="Fudcake" >';
$contents .= '<fields>Hello</fields>';
$contents .= '</Template>';

$contents .= '<Template id="0" url="Templates/foo" name="Flash" >';
$contents .= '<fields>Hello</fields>';
$contents .= '</Template>';

$myVar = "Flash";
$pattern = '/<Template .+? name="' . $myVar . '"/s';
preg_match_all($pattern, $contents, $matches);
print_r($matches);
exit();

// output:
//    <Template id="0" url="Templates/foo" name="Fudcake" ><fields>Hello</fields></Template><Template id="0" url="Templates/foo" name="Flash"
[/code]

My goal and what I think it should output is simply [b][i]<Template id="0" url="Templates/foo" name="Flash"[/i][/b].

Can anyone see my error?
:)

[Eclesiastes]

/<Template[^>]+name="' . $myVar .'"/

[flash gordon]

Cheers mate :)

I don't understand [^>] if anyone what to help explain. From my understanding it means [] == this set ^ == not > == > so I'm not sure why that works.

But thanks again.
:)

[effigy]

Initially you were not confining your regex to stay within the tag, but only to stop when it first encountered a name attribute. [tt][^>]+ [/tt]tells the pattern to match one or more characters that are not ">", thus staying within the tag. Once the engine hits the end of the tag, it backtracks attempting to satisfy the rest of the pattern ("n", then "a", then "m", then "e", and so on). If the name attribute happened to be towards the beginning of the tag--unlike your example--[tt][^>]+?[/tt] would be a better fit.

[flash gordon]

That makes sense.....Reg Ex's are an art form!

Thanks mate,
:)