How to extract data from a variable between two separators?

Angry_Coder

Hi,

Let's say I have the fallowing structure:

<?php

$article = "Ok.. some text here...

(start)
first * second
third * forth
fifth * sixth
and * so on
(end)

some other text here...
";

?>

And I want to extract what's between (start) & (end) and put the result into a new variable.

The fallowing code is only working when all the data on the same line!

if (preg_match("/\(start\)(.+?)\(end\)/", $content, $match))
{
	print $match[1];
}

Thanks in advance.

su1d

preg_match("/\\(start\\)(.+)\\(end\\)/", $content, $match)

Angry_Coder

It didn't work! Thanks anyway...

su1d

try to use single quotes ['] instead of double ["].

Angry_Coder

The same thing 🙁

su1d

so, look at the content where you're extracting text from.
do echo($content) and check that everything's OK with the text and separating tags.

stick_figure

I think that preg automatically does single line search. Look it up on php.net, I remember seeing stuff about how to do multi-line searches. Try regular ereg(), too. I don't think that it has any predisposition to newlines.