Multi-line regular expressions in Visual Studio Code
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I cannot figure a way to make regular expression match stop not on end of line, but on end of file in VS Code? Is it a tool limitation or there is some kind of pattern that I am not aware of?
Regex Solutions
Solution 1 - Regex
It seems the CR is not matched with [\s\S]
. Add \r
to this character class:
[\s\S\r]+
will match any 1+ chars.
Other alternatives that proved working are [^\r]+
and [\w\W]+
.
If you want to make any character class match line breaks, be it a positive or negative character class, you need to add \r
in it.
Examples:
- Any text between the two closest
a
andb
chars:a[^ab\r]*b
- Any text between
START
and the closestSTOP
words:START[\s\S\r]*?STOP
START[^\r]*?STOP
START[\w\W]*?STOP
- Any text between the closest
START
andSTOP
words:START(?:(?!START)[\s\S\r])*?STOP
See a demo screenshot below:
Solution 2 - Regex
To matcha multi-line text block starting from aaa
and ending with the first bbb
(lazy qualifier)
aaa(.|\n)+?bbb
To find a multi-line text block starting from aaa
and ending with the last bbb
. (greedy qualifier)
aaa(.|\n)+bbb