如何表元素的正则表达式

Question

匹配我想在这个

"STATE:</th><td>state_name</td>"; 

and i tried using this: 
$pattern = "/STATE.*(\w+)\s$/"; 

匹配"state_name"但它不工作。我很抱歉我对正则表达式很新奇......帮助表示感谢！

Answer 1

$pattern = "~STATE:</th><td>([^<]*)</td>~" 

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