Any Regular Expression geniuses?

I have this blob of text

            <div class="yn-story-content">
                <p>CLEVELAND &ndash; A federal judge in Ohio has ordered mental health treatment for the owner of a bear that fatally mauled its caretaker.</p>
                <p>A magistrate judge signed an order Friday in Cleveland tightening probation requirements for Sam Mazzola.</p>
                <p>The type of treatment wasn't outlined in court filings, and Mazzola's attorney didn't immediately return a message Monday seeking comment.</p>
                <p>One of Mazzola's bears attacked and killed the caretaker Aug. 19. Mazzola keeps bears, wolves, tigers and a lion at a compound in Columbia Station southwest of Cleveland.</p>

                <p>Mazzola got probation after pleading guilty last year to transporting a black bear without a license and selling a skunk without a license.</p>
                <p></p>
            </div>

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and this regex:

/\<div class\="yn-story-content"\>(.*?)\<\/div\>/

Code (markup):

and what it should do is grab the content between the two divs but it doesnt. I'd really like to know why? Any help?

 

$subject = <<< ENDLINE
<div class="yn-story-content">
                <p>CLEVELAND &ndash; A federal judge in Ohio has ordered mental health treatment for the owner of a bear that fatally mauled its caretaker.</p>
                <p>A magistrate judge signed an order Friday in Cleveland tightening probation requirements for Sam Mazzola.</p>
                <p>The type of treatment wasn't outlined in court filings, and Mazzola's attorney didn't immediately return a message Monday seeking comment.</p>
                <p>One of Mazzola's bears attacked and killed the caretaker Aug. 19. Mazzola keeps bears, wolves, tigers and a lion at a compound in Columbia Station southwest of Cleveland.</p>

                <p>Mazzola got probation after pleading guilty last year to transporting a black bear without a license and selling a skunk without a license.</p>
                <p></p>
            </div>
            
ENDLINE;

$found = '';

if (preg_match('/\<div class\="yn\-story\-content"\>(.*)\<\/div\>/siU', $subject, $matches))
{
	$found = $matches[1];
}

if ($found)
{
	echo $found;
}
else
{
	echo 'Not found';
}

PHP:

The regex modifiers are siU

s - span multiple lines
i - case insensitive
U - ungreedy

 

The problem is you need the s modifier.

 

Hello Exzam and danx10,

I applied the recommendation above and it is not respecting the ungreedy modifier for this example:

Blob:

<link>http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/</link><link>http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/article_6896.shtml</link><link>http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/article_7858.shtml</link><link>http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/3.shtml</link>

Code (markup):

Regex:

/\<link\>(.*?)\<\/link\>/siU

Code (markup):

What should be the first result:

http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/

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Instead this is the result:

http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/</link><link>http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/article_6896.shtml</link><link>http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/article_7858.shtml</link><link>http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/3.shtml

Code (markup):

Originally this regex was taking care of this propperly, but adding on the /siU seemed to reverse the ungreedy of my original regex below. Maybe its the ? :

/$start(.*?)$end/

Code (markup):

 

Any idea guys?

 

.*? the ? makes it ungreedy you either use that or the U modifier it makes no sense to use both, furthermore use <pre> if neccessary (when viewing the matches).