Regex and Multiline patterns

[DaveW]

I need to make a pattern that will match (simple) XML structures over multiple lines. I am using:

XMLParse.New2("<" & Element & "\b[^>]*>(.*?)</" & Element & ">",True,True)

This works fine with elements that are on one line but it does not work on multiline elements. I thought that perhaps there was a problem with the Multiline switch but I suspect it has more to do with my Regular expression. (multiline affects the ^ and $ and there are none in my expression)

Is there a Regex expert who can help?

 

[Erel]

The dot matches a single character, without caring what that character is. The only exception are newline characters.

Quote from: Regex Tutorial - The Dot Matches (Almost) Any Character

So you should use something like:

XMLParse.New2("<" & Element & "\b[^>]*>((.|\r\n)*?)</" & Element & ">",True,True)

 

[DaveW]

Thanks, That fixed it