Adding line breaks and tabs to (.*)

Question

For extracting everything between two different regular expression structures, I use this:

%%Different Regular Expressions%%(.*)%%Different Regular Expressions%%

The problem with using (.*) is that it doesn't contain line breaks (\n*). Is there any way to modify this structure or using a more efficient structure instead of this for extracting everything between two defined regular expressions?

To me new, that `.` would not mach tabs : ) I think only no newlines. You might also want to mention the environment where you're using the regex. — bobble bubble, Nov 09 '20 at 19:05
Does this answer your question? [php regexp for any kind of character](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13593948/php-regexp-for-any-kind-of-character) — Charlie Armstrong, Nov 09 '20 at 19:06

Alireza · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-09T19:22:40.807

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Use s flag, it makes dot(.) matches newline

Regex Demo

Note: As @bobblebubble mentioned in comments in python you can use re.DOTALL for s flag

edited Nov 09 '20 at 19:22

answered Nov 09 '20 at 19:05

Alireza

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@Eghbal I think in Python you can use `re.DOTALL` or the [inline flag `(?s)`](https://regex101.com/r/FQf8WP/1) – bobble bubble Nov 09 '20 at 19:12

Adding line breaks and tabs to (.*)

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