Attempting* to use reg exp. Guidance needed O:)

[Markus]

So, i'm making a proxy, cos, well, i'm bored. I thought it'd be rather easy actually.. but alas, it requires reg exp's - one of my pet hates; just below class's.

Anyway, the code im using:
[php]
$_string = file_get_conten ts("http://myspace.com"); // myspace file.

$_reg = '#\"http://(.*)\"#'; // regular expression

preg_match($_re g, $_string, $_match);
echo htmlentities($_ match[0]);
[/php]
This works... but it gives me this:

"http://x.myspacecdn.com/Modules/Common/Static/img/iphone.png" /><meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" /><meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"

when what i actually want is:

"http://x.myspacecdn.com/Modules/Common/Static/img/iphone.png"

It stretches to the last quote on the current line.. when i want the first quote that comes after href=

Any ideas?

[oberon]

Instead of matching with .*, you could match with [^\"]*. That way you will only match until first occurence of \".

$_reg = '#\"http://([^\"]*)\"#'; // regular expression