Ignoring line breaks in Javascript regex [duplicate]

Question

Even if I use the m flag, javascript regex seems to isolate regex matching by lines.

Example:

"if\nend".match(/if(.*?)end/m)
=> null

I want this to match. How do I get around this?

georg · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-07 16:39:51Z

2

You actually want s (a.k.a. "dotall"), not m, but javascript doesn't support that. A workaround:

"if\nend".match(/if([\s\S]*?)end/)

answered May 7, 2013 at 16:39

georg

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