Regex to match everything between the first and last occurrence of two distinct characters

Question

I have the following code:

$str_val = \"L(ine 1(
    L(ine 2)
    Line 3
    Line 4)\";
$regex = \'/\\(([^\\)]*?)\\)/i\';
preg_match($regex, $str_val, $match         


        

Answer 1

You can use this: -

'/\((.*)\)/s'

/s modifier is used to enable the dot metacharacter to match everything including a newline. And, since .* is a greedy quantifier, it will match the longest string possible. So, it will match till the last ).