New regular expression doesn't match even though based on one that does work

Asked Jun 21 '17 at 22:41

Active Jun 21 '17 at 22:48

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I don't know much about regular expressions, but I have one that is working properly:

preg_match_all('!<span class="a-size-large a-color-price olpOfferPrice a-text-bold">(.*?)<\/span>!', $result, $match);

Properly matches to:

<span class="a-size-large a-color-price olpOfferPrice a-text-bold">                $9.00                </span>

And yet I just created another expression:

 preg_match_all('!<span class="a-size-medium olpCondition a-text-bold">(.*?)<\/span>!', $result, $match);

That is based on the last one, and it doesn't match the following data:

<span class="a-size-medium olpCondition a-text-bold">
        Used
            - Very Good
    </span>

Any idea why?

edited Jun 21 '17 at 22:48

Barmar

asked Jun 21 '17 at 22:41

user393466

There is a newline in the second example... – assylias Jun 21 '17 at 22:43
@assylias Oh, I see. It does appear to work if I take out the new line. How would I account for this in the expression? I can't change the underlying HTML unfortunately. – user393466 Jun 21 '17 at 22:46
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12667369/php-preg-match-not-matching-past-line-breaks – assylias Jun 21 '17 at 22:47
Use the `s` modifier so that `.*` can match across newlines; – Barmar Jun 21 '17 at 22:47

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