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

Just do a greedy search

$regex = '/\(.*\)/s';

If you really want to have everything between (...) use this one

$regex = '/\((.*)\)/s';
preg_match($regex, $str_val, $matches_arr);
echo $matches_arr[1];