[RESOLVED] Regular Expression New Lines

[ScottyBoy]

I'm having some trouble trying to get my regular expression to match optional new lines in what should be an HTML parsing, BBC style tag. For instance, this works quite well.

/\[parse_html\](.+)\[\/parse_html\]/i

[parse_html]<p>This is a paragraph</p>[/parse_html]

While this doesn't work worth a darn.

[parse_html]
<p>This paragraph appears as plain text.</p>
[/parse_html]

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. 🙂

[ScottyBoy]

Nevermind, I found that I could use the 's' flag to make the '.' match newlines as well. Next time I'll read the manual more carefully before asking. 😛

[bradgrafelman]

You might want to make that '+' be non-greedy as well.. otherwise, you'll have problems with data like:

[parse_html]
<!-- This is HTML block #1. -->
[/parse_html]
[parse_html]
<!-- This is HTML block #2. -->
[/parse_html]

[ScottyBoy]

bradgrafelman;11011867 wrote:

You might want to make that '+' be non-greedy as well.. otherwise, you'll have problems with data like:

[parse_html]
<!-- This is HTML block #1. -->
[/parse_html]
[parse_html]
<!-- This is HTML block #2. -->
[/parse_html]

Ah, yes. I actually found that to be true immediately after posting earlier. Thanks for that. 😃