Help with preg_match

[Stic]

Hello!

I am using following code to preg match text between <p> and </p> tags. But can somebody tell me why isn't preg_match working?

<?php

$code = "
<div>
      <p>
       some text....
       </p>
</div>";

preg_match("/<p>(.*?)<\\/p>/", $code, $parsed); 

echo $parsed[1];
?>

[laserlight]

But can somebody tell me why isn't preg_match working?

Yes. By default the . does not match newlines, so you should write:

if (preg_match('/<p>(.*?)<\/p>/s', $code, $parsed))
    echo $parsed[1];

[Stic]

Thank you very much laserlight!

[laserlight]

You're welcome 🙂
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