title: PHP regex to get contents of a specific span element
body: <p>I need some help ... I'm a bit (read total) n00b when it comes to regular expressions, and need some help writing one to find a specific piece of text contained within a specific HTML tag from PHP.</p>
  
  <p>The source string looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;span lang="en"&gt;English Content&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="fr"&gt;French content&lt;/span&gt; ... etc ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'd like to extract just the text of the element for a specific language.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help?</p>