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How do I match and retrieve the EMBED tag from the html source

I have html source contains embed tag and want to retrieve only that, for example the below html source, how can i retrieve embed tag ? i need with preg match ...

i am trying like this, but does not work,
echo preg_match('<embed.+="(.+?)".+?<\/embed>',$result);

<div class="test">
    
      <embed src='http://www.saynow.com/flash/test.swf' quality="high" FlashVars="itemId=test&autoplay=0&duration=04:05&url=http://my.saynow.com" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="opaque" width="320" height="65" name="player" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>

    
        </div>

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Better you search for the string "<embed" and then the next "src" in it. and then "=" and search for the ' or " . if ' is found search for its matching '. if " is found go for its matching ". this is very easy to debug also.

and download the file thru php.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php
the src need not be the first attribute. if the string changes to <embed name="" src = "" /> your match may not work properly. even the src may miss in the embed tag by mistake!

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Loganathan Natarajan

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great!! works now i was there. but some syntax error