okay, so, im downloading a html page from another site and parsing the source code, attempting to get "</td></tr></table></td></tr></table><br>" but how would i put that into a preg_match syntax?

thanks in advanced

You're trying to get that exact sequence of characters from the HTML? If you know the literal string before hand, why even use regex?

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.

because i dont actually know what will be after that string, thats why i need to get it from the source

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.

Updated version.

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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.

Remember that you can also use the function preg_quote to properly escape characters in a string for use in the matching. This can save you the time (and likelihood of making a typing mistake) needed to escape sometimes tricky patterns as above. Preg_quote really comes into its own when you've got to match an arbitrary string (set at runtime for example).

thanks, managed to fix this, thanks for all your help! :)