Regular Expressions

[Charles Thornhill-Cole]

On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:19:48AM +0200, Karl Kreiner wrote:
> Hi,
>         I have following problem . I have a multi-line string containing
> several patterns I have to match.
> The problem is, that my patterns may span several lines . The question
> is : How can I express a
> regular expression , that ignores line-feeds and carriage returns ?
> I'm using the module "RE" and the method "search".
> 
> thx in adv
> Charly
> 

The DOTALL option may be what you're after:

mysearch = re.compile(pattern, re.DOTALL)
result = mysearch.search(string)

It lets '.' match any character at all, including a newline.

HTH
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Charles Thornhill-Cole
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