Hi,

I am looking for a code that can grab everything in between the brackets corresponding to a certain variable ($name).

For example, if my string is

$string =
"John{
john is a brown worm
}

Laura{
nancy is a blue pig
}";

and $name = "John", what I want returned is "john is a brown worm";
$name can equal Laura too, or any other name, in a list of n names, so John doesn't have to be the first name.
And the contents within the brackets can span multiple lines.

I am trying to do it with preg_match but it's not working.

Thanks for your help!

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

Using preg_match is the right way, but it's quite hard. Especially with newlines.

Try this:

preg_match(
'/'.$name.'\{\s\s(.*)\s\s}/',
$fulltext,
$matches);

Using preg_match may require setting proper modifier, in particular /s to make . match any symbol including newlines. RTFM about pattern modifiers.