Comments on: Regular Expressions, PHP and Newline Characters

Comment on Regular Expressions, PHP and Newline Characters by: Jerome

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:05:23 +0000

Thank you

I encountered a similar problem.

I googled :
php regular expression “any character including newline”

and I found your page that helped me to solve my problem.

Comment on Regular Expressions, PHP and Newline Characters by: Nasir

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:57:57 +0000

Thanks heaps - that bloody ’s’ at the end of the match statement was the winner!

Comment on Regular Expressions, PHP and Newline Characters by: Zboruri ieftine

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:59:58 +0000

Finally an answer to my troubles. That non-working preg_match line almost killed me. Damn dot!

Thanks

Comment on Regular Expressions, PHP and Newline Characters by: Administrator

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:53:17 +0000

I didn’t know that. I have never run into a problem with regular expressions and memory, but the strings I am matching against are never that large. Regular expressions are very memory intensive compared with other string functions…

Comment on Regular Expressions, PHP and Newline Characters by: juv

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:03:58 +0000

thanks for the “s” info.

I was using ([n]*.)* but if PCRE is limited in memory (number of returned matches is limited) you’ll get a segmentation fault with PHP

Hosting companies limit the max number of returns as it can be considered a security hole