Using regex to get specific string in it's entirity php-CodePudding

I am parsing email raw text bodies, and they have no HTML, so it's a multi line string essentially.

I thought I created a regex to catch: Quote: #403 I need that back as [Quote, 403] from the entirety of this large string.

So heres an example:

$body = "
Test Person
Tester
(123) 123-1234
 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
[email protected]




Your Information:

Name: Last, First
Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
Phone: (123) 123-1234

Quote: #403";

preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z] : #[0-9] $/i', $body,$matches);

var_dump($matches); // => array(0) {}

Matches is empty. Based on my understanding this should have worked.

Thoughts?

CodePudding user response：

Try removing the "start" and "end" characters and make it multi-line:

preg_match('/[a-zA-Z] : #[0-9] /m', $body,$matches);