preg_match returns empty array
php
Solution
This is because the . character in PHP is a wildcard for anything but newline. Examples including newlines would break. What you want to do is add the "s" flag to the end of your pattern, which modifies the . to match absolutely everything (including newlines).
/\<code: (.*?)\>(.*?)\<\/code\>/is
See here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.internal-options.php
Problem
I always use `preg_match` and it always works fine, but today I was trying to get a content between two html tags `<code: 1>DATA</code>` And I have a problem, which my code explains: ``` function findThis($data){ preg_match_all("/\<code: (.*?)\>(.*?)\<\/code\>/i",$data,$conditions); return $conditions; } // plain text // working fine $data1='Some text...Some.. Te<code: 1>This is a php code</code>'; //A text with a new lines // Not working.. $data2='some text.. some.. te <code: 1> This is a php code .. </code> '; print_r(findThis($data1)); // OUTPUT // [0][0] => <code: 1>This is a php code</code> // [1][0] => 1 // [2][0] => This is a php code print_r(findThis($data2)); //Outputs nothing! ```