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Asked: 2026-05-26T17:06:18+00:00

A seen in the title, here the HTML Code example: <body> <!–CODE_START–> <p>I <strong>Want</strong>

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A seen in the title, here the HTML Code example:

<body>
<!--CODE_START-->
<p>I <strong>Want</strong> this</p>
<p>And this one too</p>
<!--CODE_STOP-->

<p>This sould be go to trash</p>

<!--CODE_START-->
<p>This one should be included too</p>
<!--CODE_STOP-->

The question is, I want everything inside <!--CODE_START--> and <!--CODE_STOP--> so the result should be:

<p>I <strong>Want</strong> this</p>
<p>And this one too</p>

and <p>This one should be included too</p>

I tried using this /<!--CODE_START-->([^<]*)<!--CODE_STOP-->/ and /<!--CODE_START-->(.*)<!--CODE_STOP-->/ with combination of pattern modifiers like su, imu, im it won’t work, just return an empty array. And also, its full HTML page that i was try to grab.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    [^<] means everything that is not a <, obviously it’s going to fail at < p>. Just catch everything and use the non greedy option :

    preg_match_all('/<!--CODE_START-->(.*)<!--CODE_STOP-->/sU', $foo);
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