Please could someone explain to me why this regex does not match anything, when it should:
preg_match('@<title>([^<].)</title>@',$meta,$match);
I'm trying to match everything between the <title> and </title> tags, bearing in mind that there could be more than one, so the regex must be ungreedy.
You must mean ([^<]+) or ([^<]*) instead of ([^<].) as the latter means to match something not < and followed by any character
That . will just match one character (any character). You'll want to slightly modify the preceding expression ([^<]--"don't match an open caret"). To make it match more than one, add a *. To make that ungreedy, add a ?:
preg_match('@<title>([^<]*?)</title>@',$meta,$match);