PHP Regex抓取{tag}的东西{/ tag}

Question

I'm trying to come=up with a regex string to use with the PHP preg functions (preg_match, etc.) and am stumped on this:

How do you match this string?:

{area-1}some text and maybe a <a href="http://google.com">link</a>.{/area-1}

I want to replace it with a different string using preg_replace.

So far I've been able to identify the first tag with preg_match like this:

preg_match("/\{(area-[0-9]*)\}/", $mystring);

Thanks if you can help!

Answer 1

If you don't have nested tags, something this simple should work:

preg_match_all("~{.+?}(.*?){/.+?}~", $mystring, $matches);

Your results can be then found in $matches[1].