From: Greg Willits <lists@...>
Date: 2007-11-23T04:39:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Regexps and HTML comments

Jari Williamsson wrote:
> I have troubles with the regexp to get HTML comments ("<!-- some text
> -->") from a long (multi-line) string. Comments that have line breaks
> aren't found, only the comments that are on the same line.
> 
> Here's my current code:
> result = s.match(/\<!--(.*?)--\>)
> 
> How do I get the regexp to scan for the pattern beyond newlines?


Try this one:
result = s.match(/\<!--([\s\S]*?)--\>/)

-- gw

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