Question

I ned to catch all occurancy of “object” in suche code:

object InvalidFilterField3: TUNIField
  FieldType = uftString
  FieldName = 'PRI_SERIAL'
  Caption = sdfgsdfgsdfg
  Category = sdfgsdfgsdfgsdfg
  Opers = [opEqual, opLike, opInList, opIsNull, opIsNotNull]
  DefaultOper = opLike
  FieldIndex = 0
end
object UNIField1: TUNIField
  FieldType = uftDate
  FieldName = 'PRI_DT'
  Caption = sdfgsdfgsdfg
  Category = asdfasdfasdfasdf
  Opers = [opEqual, opNotEqual, opLarger, opSmaller, opEqualOrLarger, opEqualOrSmaller, opBetween, opIsNull, opIsNotNull, opIn]
  DefaultOper = opEqual
  FieldIndex = 1
end

think that must be /object(.*)end/m but it does not =(

Answer 1

You need to pass up into the pattern both the dotall modifier (s) to tell PCRE that a dot means anything (including newlines) and the ungreedy modifier (U, more on greediness and modifiers on the PHP manual):

preg_match_all('!object(.*)end!sU', $string, $matches);
print_r($matches);