Posted by emmerink on 12/09/06 17:24

BKDotCom schreef:

> emmerink@gmail.com wrote:
> > $xml = "tekst <title> twee </title>\n drie </tr> vier </td>";
> >
> > $a_sSubject = trim($xml);
> >
> > $a_sStart = '<title>';$a_sEnd = '<\/tr>';
> > $pattern = '/'. $a_sStart .'(.*?)'. $a_sEnd .'/';
> > preg_match_all($pattern, $a_sSubject, $result);
> >
> > print_r($result);
> >
> > Any idea why there is no content in the result?
> > (expected to find the content in between <title> en </tr>)
>
> pay no attention to naixn. :) The ? character != "ignore" it means
> "not greedy"
> Your "problem" is that your search string contains a linebreak.
> you need to add the "s" modifier to your expression so that the "."
> matches the "\n"
> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php
> $pattern = '/'. $a_sStart .'(.*?)'. $a_sEnd .'/s'; // should be good

Thanks, that did it. Although naixn noticed the modifier, you were
much more to the point (which made it more useful in this quite
confusing regexp notations).

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