Question

How do I rewrite the following regex expression to include carriage returns and spaces?

mysql_query\("(.*)"\)

It should match the following types of data.

String with carriage returns:

$result = my_mysql_query("
SELECT foo, bar
FROM mytable
ORDER BY name");

String with some carriage returns:

$result = my_mysql_query("SELECT foo, bar
FROM mytable
ORDER BY name");

String with no carriage returns:

$result = my_mysql_query("SELECT foo, bar FROM mytable ORDER BY name");

Answer 1

If you use PCRE (used by PHP’s preg_*() functions), use the s modifier so . matches carriage returns and newlines:

/mysql_query\("(.*)"\)/s