Simple regular expression to get text between <br/> and next <br/>

Question

I have a string that contains this (and another things):

<b>SINOPSIS:</b><br/> 
Text text text and mooore text...<br/> 

I need a reg-ex to get the text between those first two <br/> tags.

Thanks...

Note: There are more <br/> tags. I need the first occurrence only..

I will be using PHPs preg_match() function.

Answer 1

this will work, make sure to enable multiline

there are other fancier ways with more checks ect...

edit:

preg_match('!\<br\/\>.+?\<br\/\>!s', $string);

Answer 2

Allow me to point you to this brilliant answer by bobince that I stumbled upon when I was tempted to ask a similar question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454