Correct, sorry about that. I should have verified in a regexr before typing up the examples.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Andrea Giammarchi < [email protected]> wrote: > 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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