Php Preg_match Not Showing Brackets And Its Content In Result String

Something simple $stringData = file_get_contents('testtext.txt'); $regular='/beginning '(.*?)'end/ueU'; preg_match($regular, $stringData,$match); echo $match[0]; just to get t

Solution 1:

That's how HTML is rendered in a browser:

echo htmlentities($match[0]);