Preg match text in php between html tags

Question

Hello I would like to use preg_match in PHP to parse the \"Desired text\" out of the following from a html document

 Desired text &         


        

Answer 1

What if the string you're matching has multiple lines and is:

 Desired text1 
 Desired text2 
 Desired text3 

That pattern would match once, and the match would be everything in the string.

I think a better pattern is:

"'
([^<]*)
'si"