I want to create a regex in php that matches all characters excluding ; but including all newlines. I can match all characters except ; easily with the regex:
[^;]
And I can match any character including newlines with the regex:
.*/s
But I'm not sure how to combine the two to get the result I desire. I would prefer not having to create a large regex that includes all numbers, symbols, etc.
Just use:
[^;]+
This will match newlines (since they are not ;), you just have to tell it to match more than just one character.
Demo: Regex101
Implementation:
$string = 'foo
bar
abc;123
test
';
preg_match_all('/[^;]+/', $string, $matches);
var_dump($matches);
// array(1) {
// [0]=>
// array(2) {
// [0]=>
// string(13) "foo
// bar
// abc"
// [1]=>
// string(11) "123
// test
// "
// }
// }
Alternative:
Is there a chance you just want to use str_replace() or explode(), here are examples using the same $string as above:
$string = str_replace(';', '', $string);
var_dump($string);
// string(24) "foo
// bar
// abc123
// test
// "
OR
$parts = explode(';', $string);
var_dump($parts);
// array(2) {
// [0]=>
// string(13) "foo
// bar
// abc"
// [1]=>
// string(11) "123
// test
// "
// }
