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Asked: 2026-05-15T06:37:06+00:00

$data = <Data>hello</Data>; preg_match_all(/\<Data\>[.]+\<\/Data\>/, $data, $match); print_r($match); This returns: Array ( [0] => Array

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$data = "<Data>hello</Data>";
preg_match_all("/\<Data\>[.]+\<\/Data\>/", $data, $match);
print_r($match);

This returns:

Array ( [0] => Array ( ) )

So I am guessing that a match is not made?

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  1. Editorial Team
    preg_match_all("#<Data>.+</Data>#", $data, $match);

    If you wanted to use / as the delimiter:

    preg_match_all("/<Data>.+<\/Data>/", $data, $match);

    The main problem was that a . inside a character class matches a literal period. Also, using a different delimiter eliminates escaping. Note that you don’t have to escape < either way. If you want to be able to extract the inner value, use:

    preg_match_all("#<Data>(.+)</Data>#", $data, $match);

    “hello” will now be in $matches[1] in your example. Note that regex is not suited for parsing XML, so switch to a real parser for anything non-trivial.

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