How to fix regex?

Question

PHP

$text = '<li class=" default-news-list">
     
                                            <a href="news/showNews.do?sud_ponoviv_na_posadi_ekszastupnika_nachalnika_golovnogo_slidchogo_upravlinnya_natspolitsiyi&objectId=1388205" >
                                              <div class="time">13:31</div>
                                                <div class="news-title">
                                                            Суд поновив на посаді екс-заступника начальника головного слідчого управління Нацполіції
                                                </div>
                                            </a>
                                            </li>';
     
    preg_match('#<li class=" default-news-list">(.*?)</li>#', $text, $var);
     
    var_dump($var);

You need to rip out the link and the title. Wrote this regex, well, something doesn't work. Who can help?

Answer 1

Stop writing nonsense.
Symfony DomCrawler .

Answer 2

preg_match('#(.*?)#s', $text, $var);
add the s modifier
php.net/manual/ru/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers.php
s (PCRE_DOTALL)
If this modifier is used, the "dot" metacharacter in the pattern matches all characters, including newlines. Without it - everything, except for newlines. This modifier is equivalent to /s in Perl. A negated character class, such as [^a], always matches a newline, regardless of the presence of this modifier.