Preg Match Regex - Should work but it doesn't

Dear DP Members,

My source ($text_raw) is as the following:

<td valign=top>

blablablabla</br>blablablanla

</td>

Code (markup):

And I want to extract the text between <td valign=top> and </td> having worked with regex's before I thought the following would work:

$pattern = '#<td valign=top>(.*?)</td>#';
	
preg_match($pattern, $text_raw, $text_r2);

Code (markup):

Why when I print_r the array I see an empty array, I know the mistake lies in my regex but I don't see where I went wrong.

Thank you,

Eiso

 

Add the s modifier to the pattern.

 

Oh ofcourse - thank you, I needed that memory refreshment!