I need to capture some information from divs that are sometimes separated by line breaks, and this causes the (.*) operator to not capture.
For example, I have the regular expression:
<div class="search tooltip box-video" search="(.*)" title="(.*)">(.*)<a href=" (.*)"><img src="(.*)" class="capa-poster" \/><\/a><\/div>
And I want you to marry HTML:
<a href="revenge.html">
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/1leadWY.jpg"class="capa-poster" /></a></div>
For testing I posted here .
It sounds like you're using php is what the link in the question says. In this case it would be enough to add the s modifier in your regex, when using it with the metacharacter point . new lines are combined / married.
Your regex will look like this in php
$str ='<div class="search tooltip box-video" search="revenge" title="Revenge">
<a href="revenge.html"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/1leadWY.jpg"class="capa-poster" /></a></div>';
$regex = '/<div class="search tooltip box-video" search="(.*)" title="(.*)">(.*)<a href="(.*)"><img src="(.*)" class="capa-poster" \/><\/a><\/div>/s';
preg_match_all($regex, $str, $ocorrencias);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($ocorrencias);