Matching new lines not working

Question

I'm trying to match this text in JavaScript:

HEADER
abc1234 blah blah
FOOTER

Using

(?s)HEADER.*?\w{3}\d{4}[\w ]+.*?FOOTER

But it isn't matching.

Any ideas why?

Would you please not ask such crap question? Your regex won't even compile. — nhahtdh, Dec 25 '14 at 02:20

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 25 '14 at 04:15

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(?s) (DOTALL flag) is not recognized in Javascript regular expression.

Workaround for that I use is using [\s\S] instead of . to match any character including newlines.

/HEADER[\s\S]*?\w{3}\d{4}[\w ]+[\s\S]*?FOOTER/

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edited Dec 25 '14 at 04:15

Rakesh KR

answered Dec 25 '14 at 00:56

falsetru

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