[PHP] regular expression help

[Jamie Burns]

can anyone help me figure out a regular expression to find the value of a tag element?

for example:

    <tag element="my value">
    <tag element=value>
    <tag element="my value" nextelement>
    <tag element=value nextelement>
    <tag element = "my value">
    <tag element = value>
    <tag element = "my value" nextelement>
    <tag element = value nextelement>

so in each of the above i need to find either "my value" or "value"...

i tried this but it wont work for every situation:

    ereg("element[ ]*[=][ ]*[\"]?([^\">]*)[ |\"|>].*" ...

thanks for your help - regular expressions are not my best area!

jamie.