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Asked: 2026-05-16T07:52:36+00:00

I have some trouble with regex and php here: <span style=color: blue>word1</span> word by

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I have some trouble with regex and php here:

   <span style="color: blue">word1</span> word by word by word <span style="color: red">word</span>

I’m trying to get word1 out. Is the regex the best way though? Need to process around 70 sencences like this.

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$one = '<span style="color: blue">word1</span> word by word by word <span style="color: red">word</span>';
preg_match('/<span[^>]*>(.*?)<\/span>/',$one);
echo $one;

Don’t works, it outputs the same. Am I doing something wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using the following regex, capture the first result and discard the rest (if you just want to get the first result).

     <span[^>]*>(.*?)<\/span>

    See it in action: http://rubular.com/r/ateGVj5PCu

    WARNING: Regex is not suited for parsing HTML. If your code is more complicated than this, I strongly recommend using an (X)HTML parser

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