preg_match_all and newlines inside quotes
- by David
Another noob regex problem/question. I'm probably doing something silly so I thought I'd exploit the general ingenuity of the SO regulars ;)
Trying to match newlines but only if they occur within either double quotes or single quotes. I also want to catch strings that are between quotes but contain no newlines.
Okay so there's what i got, with output. Below that, will be the output I would like to get. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)
I use Regex Coach to help me create my patterns, being a novice and all. According to RC, The pattern I supply does match all occurances within the data, but in my PHP, it skips over the multi-line part. I have tried with the 'm' pattern modifier already, to no avail.
Contents of $CompressedData:
<?php
$Var = "test";
$Var2 = "test2";
$Var3 = "blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah";
$Var4 = "hello";
?>
Pattern / Code:
preg_match_all('!(\'|")(\b.*\b\n*)*(\'|")!', $CompressedData, $Matches);
Current print_r output of $Matches:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => "test"
[1] => "test2"
[2] => "hello"
)
...
}
DESIRED print_r output of $Matches:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => "test"
[1] => "test2"
[2] => "blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah"
[3] => "hello"
)
...
}
