Another preg match all

Hi,
What I need is to match all the texts between <!-- message --> and <!-- / message -->

I have tried using this:

function findinside($start, $end, $string)
{
 preg_match_all('/' . preg_quote($start, '/') . '([^\.)]+)'. preg_quote($end, '/').'/i', $string, $m);
 return $m[1];
}

$start="<!-- message -->";
$end="<!-- / message -->";
$data="<!-- message -->text1<!-- / message --><!-- message -->text2<!-- / message --><!-- message -->text3<!-- / message -->";
$out = findinside($start, $end, $data);
print_r ($out);

PHP:

but it will only show the first result

Later edit: seems like the problem is the / from $end but i still haven't came out with a fix

 

Also, it seems I need a multi line match.

 

function findinside($tag, $string)
{
    $pattern = '/<!-- '.preg_quote($tag).' -->(.*?)<!-- \/ '.preg_quote($tag).' -->/si';
    preg_match_all($pattern, $string, $m);
    return $m[1];
}


$tag = 'message';
$data="<!-- message -->text1<!-- / message --><!-- message -->text2<!-- / message --><!-- message -->text3<!-- / message -->";
$out = findinside($tag, $data);
print_r ($out);

PHP:

 

Thanks JAY, it's working great.

 

cool

 

/s means multi line?

 

It means that a . will match all characters, but also will match new lines. Without it, it will not match a new line character as well

See here for more info on regex patter modifiers

 

Thanks, repped