regular expression with new line

Question

I want the string FC Barcelona v BM Huesc , FC Ferrari v BM ameriF and C semari v AM buhari from below code.

$mat = '<font color="white">FC Barcelona v BM Huesca

<font color="white">FC Ferrari v BM ameri

<font color="white">FC semari v AM buhari
';

I tried below code , but it does not seems to work.Any help will be appreciated.Thanks

preg_match_all('/<font color="white">(.*?)/',$mat,$mats);
var_dump($mats);

Edit: My real time example is below

<?php
$game = file_get_contents("http://www.firstrow1.eu/bet365/index.html");
preg_match_all('/<\/td><td><font color="white">(.*)/m',$game,$mats);
var_dump($mats);
?>

What do you mean by "did not work"? What didn't work? What did it do? — gen_Eric, Mar 18 '13 at 15:23
What did you get on `var_dump`? You should at least get the string `''`. I think you need the `s` modifier. http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php — pozs, Mar 18 '13 at 15:24
In your url (`firstrow1.eu`), the string is `` not ``. This is one reason why you shouldn't use [regexes to read HTML](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454). — gen_Eric, Mar 18 '13 at 15:24

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '13 at 15:23

.*? will match nothing because it is relucant and matches as little as possible. Since there is no other part of the expression after it, it is done when it has matched nothing. Use .* because with all its greediness it will only match up to the end of the line. Note that this is true regardless of whether you use the m modifier or not.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 18 '13 at 15:24

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preg_match_all("#<font color=\"white\">(.*?)\n#si", $mat, $mats);

It works!

answered Mar 18 '13 at 15:24

mkjasinski

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There's no real benefit to enabling single-line mode since your non-greedy dot-star followed by a newline will stop at the first newline in the target string anyway. – Kenneth K. Mar 18 '13 at 16:03

regular expression with new line

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