[oXygen-user] How to match across multiple lines using regex?

[Wendell Piez]

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

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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:08 PM, G. Ken Holman
<gkholman at cranesoftwrights.com> wrote:
> At 2014-01-11 13:17 -0600, Eliot Kimber wrote:
>>Content-Language: en-US
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-7"
>>
>>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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