regular expression question: any character except a white space?

From: lawrence (lkrubner_at_geocities.com)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: 28 Feb 2004 10:25:48 -0800

I'm bad at regular expressions. Is this how I would look for any set
of characters that go more than 60 characters without a white space?

.{60}[^ ]

Also, does this match a block of PHP in an HTML page:

\<\?PHP .* \?\>