From: Guillermo Riojas <guillermo.riojas@...>
Date: 2010-11-23T05:33:08+09:00
Subject: Matching multiple line reg exp

Hi there,
Trying for a couple of hours (again without success) to create a regular
expression that matches a multi-line statement , i found myself here
again, asking for help.
The case is now:

<def>/123/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<nop>xxxxx
<tuv>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<wxy>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I am unable to match the statements that contains multiple lines.
The regexp looks so far like this:

/(\<[a-z][a-z][a-z]\>.*?$)/m

The question is why is only returning matches until the first end of
line?
I am sure the greediness of the expression should take him to the last
new line character just before the next statement comes, but maybe is
just that i need to read a lot more to understand the concept right.
In any case, can somebody point me what i am missing to run the scan
method and get each match (including the ones with multiple lines)?

Thanks a lot.

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