From: Louis-Philippe <default@...>
Date: 2009-11-27T06:51:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with regex

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try putting word metacharacter instead of an any metacharacter

\w*

instead of

.*

2009/11/26 Lucas Fialho <lucasfazprograma@gmail.com>

> Hello everyone.
> I'm trying to match the following pattern:
>
> Text1\n
> Text2\n
> Text3---
>
> Please note that Text3 can contain \n.
> I tried using this regex:
>
> /(.*?)\n(.*?)\n(.*?)---/
>
> The pattern matches and I have three matches, but they're like this:
>
> match[0] => "Text2\nText3---"
> macth[1] => 'Text2'
> match[2] => 'Text3'
>
> How can I get the first one to be 'Text1' ?
>

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