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Re: RegExp problem

From Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: RegExp problem
Date 2013-03-14 15:25 +0100
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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]*

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

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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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