Question

I have this HTML

<br />
<strong>Name:</strong> Josef
<br />

And I want to match the name, “Josef” in this case.
I have some problems as Josef is the last word of that string if you don’t use m with regex.
My approach

^<strong>Name:</strong> (.*?)$

doesn’t seem to work, how is this done correctly?

Answer 1

If your HTML string has two literal linebreaks in it like as it seems to, you’ll need to set your regex to multiline mode so that $ matches end-of-line as well as end-of-string.