Regular expression to match block of HTML

First I'll show you a sample of the code I'm working with:

<div class="entry">
        <p>Any HTML content could go here!</p>
      </div>
    </div><!--/post -->

Normally I'd use a regex rule such as the following to look for a prefix and a suffix and grab everything in between:

(?<=<div class="entry">).*(?=</div><!--/post -->)

However, that doesnt appear to be working as it seems to be pulling the white space in between then following parts instead of the HTML content itself:

<div class="entry">
        <p>

Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated as I've been bashing my head with this one for a good few hou开发者_C百科rs now.

Many thanks in advance.

Don't use Regex to parse HTML. You need an Xml Parser or similar.

Search Stackoverflow for the best one, like so: Robust and Mature HTML Parser for PHP

You can also consider php strip_tags().