PHP Regular Expression Question

Need help with PHP Regular Expressions

[wivenhoe]

I've only used regular expressions a couple of times before and never in PHP so need a little help.
I am reading in an external html document (which regular changes) into a variable. I then need to extract a section of it which starts:

<table class="data">

and finishes:

</table>

I'm thinking regular expressions are the way to pull out just this section on the fly. I have looked at prog_match_all but not sure on the pattern to use.

Thanks,
Mark.

[Finger]

A regular expression would work, but you could also do it with explodes like this:

$text = "(The html code here)";

$temp = explode('<table class="data">',$text,2);
$temp2 = explode('</table>',$temp[1],2);

$extracted_html = $temp2[0];