Regex Help - preg match all

regular expressions help

[rushcreek]

I want to use preg_match_all to scrape every occurrence of the url
on a google serp from this area:

<span class="a">www.website<b>something</b>.com/ - 44k - </span><nobr>

I've got this to work with ask and aol serps but not google, yahoo, or MSN. I'm a regex idiot and I don't understand it's finer points I tried using:

$pattern = '<br><span class=.+a.+>(.*)<\/span><nobr>';//the ".+" seems to work
preg_match_all('/'.$pattern.'/i', $page, $seurl);//I return $seurl

I'm hoping to figure out the other two with the help I get from this one.

Thanks in advance.

[1][edited by: dreamcatcher at 6:33 pm (utc) on Nov. 16, 2006]
[edit reason] Generalized url. [/edit]

[rushcreek]

Figured it out. Thanks.

$pattern="\<span class=a\>(.*?)\<\/span\>";

[coopster]

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