Regex - Greedyness - matching HTML tags, content and attributes

Question

I am trying to match specific span-tags from an HTML source.

The lang-attribute and the inner HTML of the tag are used as parameters for a function which returns a new s

Answer 1

You can specify it to be ungreedy using ?

/((.*?)<\/span>)/is

or make all expression ungreedy by default using PCRE_UNGREEDY modifier

/((.*)<\/span>)/Uis