Matching SRC attribute of IMG tag using preg_match

Question

I\'m attempting to run preg_match to extract the SRC attribute from the first IMG tag in an article (in this case, stored in $row->introtext).

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Answer 1

The regex I used was much simpler. My code assumes that the string being passed to it contains exactly one img tag with no other markup:

$pattern = '/src="([^"]*)"/';

See my answer here for more info: How to extract img src, title and alt from html using php?