Posted by yawnmoth on 02/05/07 19:24

Say I have the following script:

<?php
$contents = file_get_contents('preg_test.txt');
echo preg_match("#(.*?)[\r\n]+ddddddddddddd#s",$contents) ? 'is
equal' : 'is not equal';
?>

Here's preg_test.txt:

http://www.geocities.com/terra1024/preg_test.txt

(it's a malformed part of a postscript file, in case you're curious)

My question is... when I remove the s modifier, preg_match returns
true. When the s modifier is there, it returns false. I'm not really
sure why this is. The s modifier means that . includes new lines and
carriage returns. In either case, it seems like it should match.

Any ideas as to why it doesn't?

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