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Given a fairly simple regex, I'd like to match a text between to delimiters:

___MANUAL_TICKET___

###_CLIENT_START_###
TEST
###_CLIENT_END_###

###_PROBLEM_START_###
TEST2
###_PROBLEM_END_###

###_EMAIL_START_###
xyz@test.com
###_EMAIL_END_###

To get the client I am using this regex:

###_CLIENT_START_###\s(.*?)\s###_CLIENT_END_###

which works as seen HERE.

But when I use it in my PHP Code it does not find any matches:

preg_match('@###_CLIENT_START_###\s(.*?)\s###_CLIENT_END_###@', $source, $matches);

(tried different regex delimiter such as / and ~, same result)

What am I doing wrong?

PrimuS
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Note that the dot (.) by default matches any symbol but the line feed (See the documentation).

Since you have multiple line input, you need to use the PCRE_DOTALL option, which can be enabled just adding symbol s at the very end of the pattern

preg_match('@###_CLIENT_START_###\s(.*?)\s###_CLIENT_END_###@s', $source, $matches);
                                                             ^ here
AterLux
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