On May 13, 2014, at 4:51 AM, jgill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I want to search for all the text within a <div id="mydiv">.......</div>
> which is across multiple lines.
>
> <div id="mydiv">.*?</div> doesn't work because . does not include line returns
>
> Is there a way in BBEdit to force . to include returns or is there some other
> way of doing this?
Put (?s) at the beginning of the search expression, thus:
(?s)<div id="mydiv">.*?</div>
"s" is the pattern modifier, meaning "dot will match any character (including
newline)".
See the BBEdit help, Searching with Grep, Advanced Grep Topics.
- Neil Faiman
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