regex help

[John Machin]

jeff sacksteder wrote:
> Regex questions seem to be rather resistant to googling.
> 
> My regex currently looks like - 'FOO:.*\n\n'
> 
> The chunk of text I am attempting to locate is a line beginning with
> "FOO:", followed by an unknown number of lines, terminating with a
> blank line. Clearly the ".*" phrase does not match the single newlines
> occuring inside the block.
> 
> Suggestions are warmly welcomed.

I suggest you read the manual first:
"""
"."
(Dot.) In the default mode, this matches any character except a newline. 
If the DOTALL flag has been specified, this matches any character 
including a newline.
"""