Multiline PHP Regex problem - php

Question

I already tried looking here and in google... but I can't figure out what am I doing wrong :(
I have this text:
C 1 title
comment 1
C 2 title2
comment 2
C 3 title3
comment 3
Now... What I want to do is
Check for the C at the beggining.
Capture the number
Capture the Tile
Capture the comment
I'm trying to use this expression:
preg_match_all("/^C (\d*) (.*)\n(.*)$/im", $body, $match);
but it only works for the first set =(
Any tip on what am I doing wrong???
Thanks!!!!

Answer 1

It works as expected.
The snippet:
<?php
$body = 'C 1 title
comment 1
C 2 title2
comment 2
C 3 title3
comment 3';
preg_match_all("/^C (\d*) (.*)\n(.*)$/im", $body, $match);
print_r($match);
?>
produces the following output:
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => C 1 title
comment 1
[1] => C 2 title2
comment 2
[2] => C 3 title3
comment 3
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => 1
[1] => 2
[2] => 3
)
[2] => Array
(
[0] => title
[1] => title2
[2] => title3
)
[3] => Array
(
[0] => comment 1
[1] => comment 2
[2] => comment 3
)
)
as you can see on Ideone.
To keep your matches nicely grouped, you might want to try:
preg_match_all("/^C (\d*) (.*)\n(.*)$/im", $body, $match, PREG_SET_ORDER);
instead.
HTH
EDIT
Ideone runs: PHP Version => 5.2.12-pl0-gentoo
And I also tested it on my machine (and get the same result), which runs: PHP Version => 5.3.3-1ubuntu9.5
But I can't imagine this is a versioning thing (at least, not with 5.x versions). Perhaps your line breaks are Windows style? Try this regex instead:
"/^C +(\d*) +(.*)\r?\n(.*)$/im"
I used the line break \r?\n instead of just \n so that Windows and Unix-style line breaks are matched, and also replaced single spaces with + to account for possible two (or more) spaces.