Question

For example, if I wanted to match text with multiple lines I could use the /s modifier in preg_match.

Or I could use a character class like [^!]+ instead of the .+. (assuming I didn’t have any exclamation points in my RegEx)

Problem is there might be an exclamation mark sometimes. Also, when I do this it is greedy and matches all the way to the end.

Sorry for the newbie question but I can’t test /s in http://regexpal.com/ and I really like its interface. Basically I want a character class that won’t be used in the text and one that isn’t greedy so it doesn’t try to go as far as it can.

Thanks!

Answer 1

What about using

(.|\n)

That should explicitely allow newlines, too.