Matching any amount of words regular expression - php

Question

I'm trying to capture a line with n-number of words that follow a title sequence in PHP, but I cannot capture anything more than the first word. Here are the contents of the file that I am trying to match:
Name: test
Caption: test test test test
And here is the regular expression code and results...
preg_match_all('/([A-z]+:)\s*(\w+)[\r|\r\n|\n]*/', $contents, $array);
Results:
array(3) {
[0]=> array(2) {
[0]=> string(11) "Name: test "
[1]=> string(14) "Caption: test "
}
[1]=> array(2) {
[0]=> string(5) "Name:"
[1]=> string(8) "Caption:"
}
[2]=> array(2) {
[0]=> string(4) "test"
[1]=> string(4) "test"
}
}
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Assuming that your input data always looks like your example (title segment, colon, words; all on a single line), this should do it:
preg_match_all('/([A-Za-z]+:)\s*(.*)/', $contents, $array);
This would result in $array[1] matching something like Name:, and then $array[2] would match the rest of the line (you may have to use trim() to strip any leading and/or trailing white space from $array[2]).
If you only want to capture "words" in the second part, I believe you could change the second capture group to something like:
preg_match_all('/([A-Za-z]+:)\s*([\w\s]+)/', $contents, $array);
Note also that you shouldn't use the [A-z] construct, since there are non-alphabetical characters in the ASCII table between the upper case letters and the lower case letters. See the ASCII Table for a character map.