preg_match across multiple lines

Here’s how to do php preg_match multi line

Say you have this html:

<select name="foo">
   <option value="1">asdfa</option>
 <option>asd</option>
</select>

and you want everything between the <select> box, use this php code:

preg_match('/<select name="foo">(.*)</select>/msU',$html,$matches);
print_r($matches);

1 thought on “preg_match across multiple lines”

Paul July 19, 2013 at 9:56 am
This works. But it works only if u use this slash before ” and /
So here is the corrected version
preg_match(‘/(.*)/msU’,$html,$matches);
print_r($matches);
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