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Subject: Re: Confusion about String.matches method
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On 01/06/2011 17:17, Joshua Cranmer allegedly wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 10:10 AM, laredotornado wrote:
>> which returns false. If I remove the new line ("\n"), it matches, but
>> I can't guarantee my input won't contain new lines. How can I modify
>> my regular expression to match? Thanks, - Dave
>
> There is a flag that you can set to treat newlines as regular characters.
>

Pattern.DOTALL, to be precise. You can't use that in combination with 
String#matches() however, as it is an argument to Pattern#compile. So 
either go that way, or use the embedded flag, "(?s)" (put it at the 
start of your regex).

-- 
DF.
Determinism trumps correctness.