Why is this matching wrong? what should I do if the regular expression is difficult?

Why is this matching incorrect? what is the difficulty of regular expression ;? Php $ txt = & quot; [face = 'simhei '] 12345 [/face] [face = 'simhei'] haha [/face] & quot ;; $ return = preg_match_all (& quot;/\ [face = '(. *) '] (why is the matching incorrect? it is a difficult regular expression.

$ Txt = "[face = 'simhei '] 12345 [/face] [face = 'simhei'] haha [/face]";
$ Return = preg_match_all ("/\ [face = '(. *)'] (. + ?) \ [\/Face]/", $ txt, $ tar );
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";
Print_r ($ tar );
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My match means the shortest string ending with [/face] with [face = 'arbitrary number...

Where is the error ???

Any number seems to be excluded [/face]

Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => [face = 'simhei '] 12345 [/face] [face = 'simhei'] haha [/face]
)

[1] => Array
(
[0] => simhei '] 12345 [/face] [face = 'simhei
)

[2] => Array
(
[0] => haha
)

)

The result is incorrect. the longest matched string is dizzy.

------ Solution --------------------
...... /\ [Face = '(. *)']… => ...... /\ [Face = '(.*?) ']……

No ?, Is greedy, and the result is as you paste
------ Solution --------------------
/\ [Face = '(. *)'] (. + ?) \ [\/Face]/U can be added with a U.