python regex carriage return

Question

please could you help with the regex to get everything unto the ";"..

window.egfunc = {
  name: "test name",
  type: "test type",
  storeId: "12345"
};

I have the following which works when all the data would be on one line, but as soon as there are returns, it won't work...

window.egfunc\s+=\s+(.*);

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '19 at 13:45

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Replace the dot with [\s\S]:

window.egfunc\s+=\s+([\s\S]*?);

answered Jul 28 '19 at 13:45

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '19 at 14:16

The dot . matches everything other than linefeed characters \n, \r. As soon as it encounters any LF character, it stops. We will have to explicitly say to regex to use . for multi-line using the flags re.DOTALL.

Similar modifiers are there in other languages too, like perl has s that needs to be added in last.

import re

txt = """window.egfunc = {
  name: "test name",
  type: "test type",
  storeId: "12345"
};"""

x = re.findall("window.egfunc\s+=\s+(.*);", txt, re.DOTALL)
print(x)

There is one more re.MULTILINE or re.M, but it didn't work alone. If anyone know the reason, can you please comment out?

python regex carriage return

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