Preg_match not finding a string

PHP
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I am trying to extract a table from HTML, here is the HTML code for the start of the table.

<table class='price' id='comp' style='clear:both;display:none'>

But when I use this PHP code, no matches are found

preg_match("/<table class='price' id='comp' style='clear:both;display:none'>.*?<\\/[\\s]*table>/s", $buffer, $matches);
print_r($matches);

I guess there is something wrong with the preg_match statement?

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It works fine for me with this test string:

abc<table class='price' id='comp' style='clear:both;display:none'><tr><td></td></tr></table>abc