Regular Expression Help with New Lines

[kazisdaman3]

Hi there, thanks for reading this!

Trying to create a regular expression that grabs everything inside of

[quote]
text
[/quote]

I can do it with preg_replace("/\[quote\](.*?)\[\/quote\]/", $var,$var);

but it doesn't do it with new lines, any help would be much appreciated been trying to figure this out for hours now.

Thank You,
Wesley

[eelixduppy]

Try changing the pattern to something like this:

$pattern = "/\[quote\](.*?)\[\/quote\]/s";

Notice the use of the 's' pattern modifier: [php.net...]

[kazisdaman3]

Ok thanks that worked perfect!

I just ran into another small change, wouldn't I add like an! if I wanted it to do it to have it only do it when something does not appear.

Like:

original - /\[quote\](.*?)\[\/quote\]/s

modified - /\[quote\](!\[quote\])(.*?)\[\/quote\]/s

only do it when there is NO [quote] inside the two open and close quote brackets?

Thanks again appreciate your help

[eelixduppy]

You mean something like this?

$pattern = "/\[quote\]([^\[quote\]]+)\[\/quote\]/";

[php.net...]

[kazisdaman3]

Hey Thanks eelixduppy,

I was just having some problems, although your first formula was correct I just needed to add an loop to it for my particular purpose. Thanks aton eelixduppy again for like the 6th time!

[eelixduppy]

So you're good, now, right? Your solution has been found? :)