Just to double check, your `/he[\d\D]?llo/` should be `/he[\d\D]*?llo/`, right? Otherwise it's not the same as `/he[.*]?llo/`
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Jake Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I brought up the topic of adding the DOTALL modifier to the Chrome V8 > Engine here > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-discuss/K9h0qB3Z3Gw> > and > was directed to es-discuss. I was curious about the practicality and the > want for adding a DOTALL modifier to the ECMAScript standards in the future? > > For those that don't know that DOTALL modifier is a regex modifier that > allows the '.' symbol to match newlines as well. > > *Example regex:* /he[.*]?llo/ > *Example search string 1: *hello > *Example search string 2: *he > llo > > The above regex will match the 1st search string but will not match the > 2nd. > > In ECMAScript the only current way to make a match like that work is to > use [\d\D] which will match everything including newlines, given below. > > *Current workaround regex: */he[\d\D]?llo/ > > The *s* modifier is the standard in most major languages except > Javascript and Ruby. This will allow newline matching for the . symbol. > The proposed regex is below: > > *Proposed new regex: */he[.*]?llo/s > *Example search string: *he > llo > > Let me know if there is any more information I can provide, or any > questions you have. > > Thanks much, > Jake > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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