Posted by yawnmoth on 02/05/07 20:20

On Feb 5, 2:13 pm, Rik <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> yawnmoth<terra1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hmmmz, they both match here in PHP 5.1.4, PCRE Library Version 6.6
> 06-Feb-2006, with or without the modifier. What version are you using?

PHP 5.2.0 (cli).

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