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The_book · 05-10-2023, 07:14 AM

sigil regex has opinion 'dot all' for let dot match all characters, including '\n'. With this opinion you can search across lines.
But use `<div class="foo">(.*?)</div>` is not a good idea, for there are situations like `div ... div ... /div ... /div`

05-10-2023, 07:14 AM	#2
The_book Zealot Posts: 100 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2019 Device: none	sigil regex has opinion 'dot all' for let dot match all characters, including '\n'. With this opinion you can search across lines. But use `<div class="foo">(.*?)</div>` is not a good idea, for there are situations like `div ... div ... /div ... /div`