Why does the regular expression only find the last match?

Question

Regular Expressions

Hi friends.
I'm trying to pull out the text of the links that are in the cells of the table. But preg_match_all gives me only the last match, but I need the whole list.

$content = '<tr>sdf<td><a class="123">777777</a></td><td></td><td><a class="123">888888</a></td></tr>';
$pattern = '~<td><a.*>([0-9]{5,})<\/a><\/td>~mui';
preg_match_all($pattern, $content, $matches); // находит только 888888

What did I write wrong in the regular expression?

Answer 1

$pattern = '~<td><a.*?>([0-9]{5,})<\/a><\/td>~mui';