Re: [Vala] regex to get some multiline text

[Shawn Ferris <shawn ferris gmail com>]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Shawn Ferris <shawn ferris gmail com> wrote:

> I'm not 100% sure on your use case, I didn't read it thoroughly, but I
> > believe you need to add a loop:
> Oops.. I may have misunderstood your question.. I think you need to enable
> multiline, which I believe is:
>
>         Regex r = /\s*(?P<start>.*)\s*%tag:(?P<**k
> ey>.*)%\s*(?P<content>.*)\s*%**endtag%\s*(?P<end>.*)/m;
>
> Note the m (multiline compiler flag) following the regexp. I'm not 100%
> sure on that syntax as I'm used to:
>
>         Regex r = new Regex(""" \s*(?P<start>.*)\s*%tag:(?P<**
> key>.*)%\s*(?P<content>.*)\s*%**endtag%\s*(?P<end>.*) """,
> RegexCompileFlags.MULTILINE);

I inadvertently left the list off this reply.. However, MULTILINE was still
not enough.. '.' (dot) still wont match newlines w/o also
setting RegexCompileFlags.DOTALL.