Regular Expressions and "\n"

[Olate]

In a templating system I'm working on, I have a block which I would like to setup like this:

{block:time}
the time is {$time}
{/block} 

with each one on a new line. However I can't get that to work. I have to do:

{block:time}The time is: {$time}
{/block} 

This appears to be because it doesnt like \n's before the .+ The regular expressions I'm using to parse this are:

preg_match_all('/{block:'.$name.'}(\n*.+\n*){\/block}/m', $this->template, $blocks); 

and also

$template = preg_replace('/{block:'.$block.'}\\n*.+\\n*{\/block}/m',
$this->blocks["$block"], $template); 

Any suggestions on how to do what I want to do?

[Stadler]

Can't work, since you're using the m (PCRE_MULTILINE) modifier, so every line would count as a single line. See http://de.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.modifiers.php for more info.