Regex to match content of HTML body in PHP

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You simply have to add the s modifier to have the dot match all characters, including new lines :

preg_match("/<body.*\/body>/s", $content, $matches);

as explained in the doc : http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php

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Updated on June 14, 2022

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Troj almost 2 years
I need a regex in php for matching contents between tags of an element, e.g. <body> and </body> with the perl compatible preg_match.

So far I tried with:
```
// $content is a string with html content

preg_match("/<body(.|\r\n)*\/body>/", $content, $matches);

print_r($matches);
```
…but the printout is an empty array.
Wookai almost 15 years

Setting the -m flag is not sufficient, as it only changes the behavior of the ^ and $ operators.