preg_match to find div content

[MattR]

Really cannot see why this doesn't work.

 

$text = "<div id=\"page\">
<div class=\"item\">
	Test
</div>
</div>";
preg_match("#<div id=\"page\"><div class=\"item\">(.*?)</div></div>#m", $text, &$match);
var_dump($match);

 

Output:

 

array(0) { }

 

Why??

[mikecampbell]

You aren't matching the spaces/tabs/newlines that are between your nested div tags.

[requinix]

. will only match newlines (\r and \n) if you give the /s regex flag.