preg_replace character matching

[future_man]

Does anyone know if "." will match end of line chars in preg_replace so that they don't have to be explicit in the code?

For example, are both of these the same?

preg_replace("/@@\[((.)*?)\]@@/e","strlen('$1')-(substr_count('$1','\"')+1)",$str)

preg_replace("/@@\[((.|\n|\r\n)*?)\]@@/e","strlen('$1')-(substr_count('$1','\"')+1)",$str)

Thanks,
John

[future_man]

Answering my own question.... No, the "." matches every char except the \n and \r\n end of line chars:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/dot.html

[konsu]

it depends on the implementation. i would just check if regular expressions in php match dots and newlines.

[drew010]

if you add an "s" modifier after your delimiting character, it tells the regex engine to have a dot match newlines as well.

[future_man]

thanks! just saw that as well.

john