Question

How can I match (PCRE) everything inbetween two tags?

I tried something like this:

<!–\s*LoginStart\s*–>(.*)<!–\s*LoginEnd\s*–>

But it didn’t work out too well for me..

I’m kind of new to regular expressions, so I was hoping if someone would be kind enough to explain to me how I would accomplish this, if its even possible with regular expressions.

Thanks

Answer 1

$string = '<!-- LoginStart --><div id='stuff'>text</div><!-- LoginEnds -->'; $regex = '#<!--\s*LoginStart\s*-->(.*?)<!--\s*LoginEnds\s*-->#s';  preg_match($regex, $string, $matches);  print_r($matches); // $matches[1] = <div id='stuff'>text</div> 

explanations:

(.*?) = non greedy match (match the first <!-- LoginEnds --> it finds     s = modifier in $regex (end of the variable) allows multiline matches         such as '<!-- LoginStart -->stuff                  more stuff                  <!-- LoginEnds -->'