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Re: RegExp problem

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Stefan Weiss wrote on 14 mrt 2013 in comp.lang.javascript:

> On 2013-03-14 14:52, Evertjan. wrote:
>> Jukka K. Korpela wrote on 14 mrt 2013 in comp.lang.javascript:
>> 
>>> The period "." does not match newline characters, and the data string 
>>> contains two newlines (\n). To work around this, replace (.*) by
>>> ((.|\n)*)
>> 
>> or:
>> 
>> [.\n]*

right, sorry.
 
> That's a literal dot character.
> It does nothing special inside a character class.
> 
>> or my personal favorite for "any character": 
>> 
>> [\s\S]*
> 
> Shortest way to match "any character including \n":
> [^]
> 
> 
> - stefan
> 



-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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RegExp problem John English <john.foreign@gmail.com> - 2013-03-14 04:56 -0700
  Re: RegExp problem "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-03-14 14:22 +0200
    Re: RegExp problem "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-03-14 14:52 +0100
      Re: RegExp problem "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-03-14 16:08 +0200
      Re: RegExp problem Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-03-14 15:25 +0100
        Re: RegExp problem Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-14 16:47 +0100
          Re: RegExp problem Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-14 21:11 +0100
        Re: RegExp problem "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-03-14 19:54 +0100
  Re: RegExp problem "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-03-14 13:26 +0100
  Re: RegExp problem Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-03-14 17:31 +0100

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