Regular expressions & newline characters PHP

[ktsirig]

Hi all!
I have a preformatted text where I want to run a regular expression. The text is something like :

codeA

*->refbrjkgbrkjgbrjukbgreukgbrukgbegurebgrek

klgfhnrjkgnrjgbrejkgbrjkbegjkrbbrkegbrejb

reopjgporejytopjrotjrphjpojprhjtporhtjrph

codeB

*->4p3tuop43tu4optj4rofdgfnreklfnrklefnrkenr

ropeturojgorejgeolgjrelgjrlgrhelkghelghlg

regjrejgoejeojigjreilgjelgjrilgjlerjgelrj

From each 'paragraph', I want to match the part under codeA and codeB

The problem I have is with matching the newline characters. I write :

preg_match('/code.{1}\n\*->(.*)\ncode./')
but it doesn't match... I think the problem is the newlines

[simon2263]

By default, the '.' special regex operator doesn't match the newline character. If this is the cause of your problem, you can modify this behaviour using the 's' regex modifier - see here: [uk2.php.net...]

[FiSH42]

I don't know if this 'll help, but i tend to use nl2br() prior to doing ops on strings as '<br>' 's are always easy to pick out, and it will replace most forms of newline, as far as I'm aware.

[freeflyer]

Hello,
you can also consider \s* , because it include \n, and \n\r also.