From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-08-18T19:22:40+09:00
Subject: Re: unit testing generated content

sylvain wrote:
> What I would like to do now, is to have a regexp assert multiline
> match, some thing like :
> 
> assert_match_regexp(actual) {
> /^start/
> /something .*/
> /^\s*$/
> /^end/
> }
> 
> Which mean I expect 4 lines, individually matching the associated
> regexp

You can match a single regexp across a multi-line string; using /m 
option is clearer since . then matches any character including newline.

>> str = "foo\nbar\nbaz\nbap\n"
=> "foo\nbar\nbaz\nbap\n"
>> str =~ /^bar$\n^baz$\n^bap$/m
=> 4
>> str =~ /^bar$.*^bap$/m
=> 4
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