php - preg_match acting very strange -

i using preg_match() extract pieces of text variable, , let's variable looks this:

[htmlcode]this supposed displayed[/htmlcode]  middle text  [htmlcode]this supposed displayed[/htmlcode]

i want extract contents of [htmlcode]'s , input them array. doing using preg_match().

preg_match('/\[htmlcode\]([^\"]*)\[\/htmlcode\]/ms', $text, $matches); foreach($matches $value){ return $value . "<br />"; }

the above code outputs

[htmlcode]this supposed displayed[/htmlcode]middle text[htmlcode]this supposed displayed[/htmlcode]

instead of

and if have offically run out of ideas

as explained already; * pattern greedy. thing use preg_match_all() function. it'll return multi-dimension array of matched content.

preg_match_all('#\[htmlcode\]([^\"]*?)\[/htmlcode\]#ms', $text, $matches); foreach( $matches[1] $value ) {

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