That works. But here’s another question: why is the outer group with the ? operator required? I tried just (.|\n)*, which should match anything between my start and end strings, but it does not, where ((.|\n)*?) does. Thanks, E. -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 512.554.9368 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com On 1/11/14, 3:08 PM, "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com> wrote:
At 2014-01-11 13:17 -0600, Eliot Kimber wrote:
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Im trying to a regular expression search and replace for things like this:
doc: text text next line next line/a:documentation
What I cant figure out is how to do this multi-line regular expression match. If use dot matches all then my match is not limited to just whats shown but everything between the first doc: and the last /a:documentation.
If do e.g. doc:(.)/a:documentation then it matches cases where it all happens to be on one line.
Is this possible? What bit of regex fu am I missing?
I think it is the use of "\n".
Try this to include all of the lines: doc:((.|\n)*?):documentation
(note that I'm guessing what your boundaries are because of a mailer problem)
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . Ken
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