help with preg_match

[Chris Purves <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I am trying to use preg_match to match something from an html file. 
Within the html file is some text that looks like:

<span>Something, something end</span>

I know that the text ends 'end', but I don't know what the Something, 
something is.  I am using preg_match as follows:

preg_match('/[^>]*end/',$curl_response,$matches);

I want to match 'end' and everything before it that is not '>'.

The problem appears to be with the '>'.  I have tried escaping (\>), but 
it didn't make a difference.  The php script hangs when it tries to run 
this function.


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Chris Purves

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