Hi, I think Ken misread the problem but solved it anyway. Shouldn't the "dot matches all" take care of the line breaks, while the ? (correctly placed) in the expression prevents it from being too greedy? So, something like "doc:.+?</a:documentation>" ? Cheers, Wendell Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com XML | XSLT | electronic publishing Eat Your Vegetables _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:08 PM, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com> wrote:
At 2014-01-11 13:17 -0600, Eliot Kimber wrote:
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I+IBk-m trying to a regular expression search and replace for things like this:
doc: text text next line next line+ADw-/a:documentation+AD4-
What I can+IBk-t figure out is how to do this multi-line regular expression match. If use +IBw-dot matches all+IB0- then my match is not limited to just what+IBk-s shown but everything between the first doc: and the last +ADw-/a:documentation+AD4-.
If do e.g. +IBw-doc:(.)+ADw-/a:documentation+AD4gHQ- 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.
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