Linda Patterson wrote:
> I read that the character '.' matches all characters except for a \n (new
> line) so I have the httpd.conf file in a string and I've replaced all the
> \n's with "@NL@" so there's no \n's to trip up the '.'

Don't do that. Use the 'm' option for preg_match, which makes . match a \n.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pcre.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.modifiers.php

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