preg_match_all issue, need some help

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
>.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:30:58 +0100, dysfunct <DysfunctY2K@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

preg_match_all("/<img[^>]*>/",$html,$images);

However, proper use of DOM & getElementsByTagName() could be more easily
maintained.

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Rik Wasmus