Re: [support] preg_match failes where egrep and PERL succeed?

Luke wrote:

(Solved! See below for details.)

I've just figured it out. The difference between the greps and PCRE, is that in the greps, the data is taken on a line by line basis. So, ^ matches the start of a line. PCRE is not treating newline specially, so ^ and $ apply to the beginning and end of the entire pattern space.

You could fiddle about with the options: # m Multiline mode - ^ and $ match internal lines # s match as a Single line - . matches \n c.f. perlreref Dick