<div class="hello">
<span>Hello World<span>
<div>
I need to get all content inside the div.
I tried this way, but I can not get:
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chris85
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2https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3577641/how-do-you-parse-and-process-html-xml-in-php – AbraCadaver Oct 03 '17 at 17:05
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You wouldn't use a hammer to drill holes into wood. Why use regex to parse XML? But anyway, to answer your question `.` matches any character *except newline characters*. Use the `s` modifier – ctwheels Oct 03 '17 at 17:06
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In the future use the `save regex` option and provide the link... and preferably the code here as well. – chris85 Oct 03 '17 at 17:12
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@douglas I bet you are not using single line flag. Do you? – Federico Piazza Oct 03 '17 at 17:22
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Use the following:
/(<div class="hello">){1}(.)*(<\/div>){1}/is
The 's' flag allows the dot (.) to match newline. Then you will get the three groupings that you desire.
See https://regex101.com/r/dlrbhM/2 for a live example
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As correct as this is (I noted this in my comment about 10 minutes ago), this is not a good answer as HTML should very seldom be parsed with regex (by seldom, I mean pretty much never) – ctwheels Oct 03 '17 at 17:22
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I agree with what you are saying @ctwheels, but the OP didn't ask for the best way to do it, just "how" to do it. – jhenderson2099 Oct 03 '17 at 17:24