Question

I have this pattern for preg_match_all: /(<span[^>]*value=.?(\w*).?[^>]*annotation[^>]*>)(.*?)<\/span>/ that work for this text:

example<span id="Marky100120131906070" class="myMarkGen" value="247" name="annotation">logy.*-/+!\"·$%&/()=?¿hi </span>example

but this does not work in this case:

example<span id="Marky100120131906070" class="myMarkGen" value="247" name="annotation">logy.*-/+!\"

·$%&/()=?¿hi </span>example

Note that there is a line break

What is the pattern that would work in both cases, and that works regardless of the content of the span?I need the text in to span and the value of span

you can try it here

Answer 1

Plus Modifiers it will do:

/(<span[^>]*value=.?(\w*).?[^>]*annotation[^>]*>)(.*?)<\/span>/smi