> On 10 Aug 2016, at 16:02, Jake Reynolds <jreynolds...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I brought up the topic of adding the DOTALL modifier to the Chrome V8 Engine > here 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
Formal proposal (incl. proposed spec changes) for this feature: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/es-regexp-singleline-flag _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
