preg_match not giving output

Question

i am trying to filter data using preg_match it seems to be correct and matching on view source code but when i run the code it gives no match found

here is my pattern

  /\<p\>(.*)\<center\>/

string is

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
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    </head>

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         <center>
             <div style="margin-left:2px; margin-top:10px; margin-bottom:10px; ">

           <!-- AD BLOCK -->



      </body>

@TimWolla which html parser simplehtml parseris very slow i have tried in past — sachin, Feb 23 '14 at 01:52
DOMDocument would be first way to go I suppose: http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.loadhtml.php — Ulrich Thomas Gabor, Feb 23 '14 at 01:56
In general using a regular expression against HTML is not a good idea. Above, @Bugs cites the greatest answer in the history of stackoverflow. — ChicagoRedSox, Feb 23 '14 at 02:03

Jan Tojnar · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-23T01:57:42.373

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By default . doesn’t match new lines. Try adding DOTALL (s) modifier like this /<p>(.*)<center>/s.

edited Feb 23 '14 at 01:57

answered Feb 23 '14 at 01:47

Jan Tojnar

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