Quick regex question for the real hardcore programers

hello

i will get right into it
how can i use regex to capture information from a file which has a layout like so

<object>
text here
more text
and some more text
</object>

my question is how can i use regex to get just the 3 lines between <object> and </object>

i tried to do it like so

preg_match("/<object>(.*)</object>/",$html,$vidid);

by using (.*)

but it didnt work at all

i know that this might be simple to some of you...

so please any help on this would be very much appreciated

Thank you

 

Below link would help. Using /m & /s can solve your problem.

http://au2.php.net/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers

 

thanks a lot master...
that was certainly a step in the right direction.
was so simple

thanks again

 

Should be pretty simple.

(^<object>)(.*)(</object>$)

<object>
text here
more text
and some more text
</object>

Check $2 and the result will be
text here
more text
and some more text

The only flags you will need for that regex is the dotall flag.