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  1. Mar 22nd, 2007, 02:11 PM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Regular Expression Question

    I was wondering if someone could tell me how to match something even in a line break.

    I know that \w is any alpha numeric character, and . will do any character except linebreak.

    How can I match any character including a line break? I have been looking, but can't seem to find anything.

    Thank you for your help.
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    Re: Regular Expression Question

    http://regexlib.com/

    http://regexadvice.com/blogs/regex_s...eat-Sheet.aspx

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    Re: Regular Expression Question

    Thank you techgnome, but that wasn't really helpful. I pretty much have that information.

    I am trying to get everything between body tags on an html page. When I use (?<=<body>).*?(?=</body>) on msn.com, for example, it works because everything is inline with no line breaks. However, if I use the sample below, that expression doesn't work. I am guessing it is because of the line breaks, but, even with multiline turned on, I have been unable to get the same results.

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    I have been working with Expresso to try to figure this out, but haven't been able to. Any help would be great.

    One thing I should add; the body tag has multiple settings, so I adjusted the expression to handle that. I can capture the first body tag, but can't get anything after that. This is what I have right now <(body[^>]+>(?=\w*\s*)</body>, but it doesn't work at all.
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  4. Mar 22nd, 2007, 03:47 PM #4
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    Re: Regular Expression Question

    Ok, I got this to work.

    (?<=<body[^>]*>).*?(?=</body>)

    Thank you for the help.
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