I am using the following regex:

(public|private +)?function +([a-zA-Z_$][0-9a-zA-Z_$]*) *\\(([0-9a-zA-Z_$, ]*)\\) *{(.*)}

To match the following string:

public function messenger(text){
sendMsg(text);
}
private function sendMsg(text){
alert(text);
}

(There is no line breaks in the string, they are converted to whitespaces before the regex runs)

I wanted it to capture both functions, but it is capturing: $1: "" $2: "messenger" $3: "text" $4: " sendMsg(text); } private function sendMsg(text){ alert(text); "

By the way, I am using Javascript.