preg_match and new breaks...

[Spud_Nic]

I'm trying to extract some text from a html file, but it only seems to work when it's all on one line. My code is:

$OpenPage = fopen($PagePath, "r") or die("Can't open file!");
	$ContentsBuffer = fread($OpenPage, filesize($PagePath));
	$ContentExtract = preg_match("/<pcontent>.*<\/pcontent>/", $ContentsBuffer, $aExistingContent);
	fclose($OpenPage);	

and then I'm print it to the screen using:

print $aExistingContent[0];

now this works fine when the html file I'm reading looks like this:
<pcontent>Welcome to this website.</pcontent>

but if I insert a new line (pressing the enter key) anywhere in that passage (even just before the end tag), the preg_match fails completely.

I saw on a post when I did a search that I can use the 's' of regexp? but that didn't make any sense.

Using the .* pattern in my expression which will catch all characters, I presumed this would also be for line breaks, but it's not!
Can anyone help me solve this?

Thanks in advance

[sidney]

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.modifiers.php

the link will explain pattern modifiers

i hope it helps

 preg_match("/<pcontent>.*</pcontent>/s", $ContentsBuffer, $aExistingContent); 

[Spud_Nic]

thanks, thats a huge help and pointed me in the right direction!

The php.net link is down at the moment but I'll defo check it later. I added the "/s" to my code and its working. I wouldn't have solved that easily on my own.

Cheers again.