The anchor patterns ^ and $ match the beginning and end of an entire string by default. $text = "name: Joe\noccupation: coder\n\n";if ( preg_match_all( "/^\w+:\s+(.*)$/m", $text, $array ) ) { print "\n"; print_r( $array ); print "\n";}?>
\n"; print_r( $array ); print "