[oXygen-user] Regular Expression That Matches Across Newlines? (Solved)

[Eliot Kimber]

Eliot Kimber wrote:
> Is the following possible using a regex search and replace?
> 
> I have data that looks like this:
> 
> 1. Some text?
> blah
> blah
> 2. Some more text
> second line?
> blah
> blah
> 
> What I want to do is match on everything from the start of lines 
> starting with "[0-9]+\." through the "?", Capturing the text between the 
> initial "." and the "?".
> 
> Is this possible with Oxygen?  I can't figure it out.

Of course I immediately worked it out by trying to do something else:

^[0-9]([^\n\?]+)(\n)?([^\?]+)\?$

This appears to correctly match one or two lines starting with 1. and 
ending with "?".

Cheers,

Eliot


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