Removing text from a string, newlines stopping it

[Catfish]

<?php

$idArray = array('IDQ10090');

foreach($idArray as $value)
{
print($value);
$forecastData = preg_replace('/.*<pre>/', '', file_get_contents('http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?'.$value.'.txt'));
$forecastData = preg_replace('/<\/pre>.*/', '', $forecastData);

print($forecastData);
}

?>

 

I want the data from the URL that is between the <pre> </pre> tags only. This code is removing the tags only, and not all the characters before and after it. I think the newline character is being used as a limit point for the .* meta-characters, but I don't know how to remove this limitation/function?

[salathe]

Use the s pattern modifier (/.../s) to allow the dot meta character to match newlines.

[Catfish]

thanks for the help