regular expressoin any char including new line

[MD]

regular expression match any character including new line

([.|/s]*)

why this doesn't work?

MD

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

regular expression match any character including new line

([.|/s]*)

why this doesn't work?

If think it is common to achieve this functionality
via the Pattern.DOTALL flag.

Arne

 

[Jeffrey Schwab]

regular expression match any character including new line

([.|/s]*)

A . inside a character class means the class can match any character
other than newline. You can make it match newlines, too, by making
Pattern.DOTALL the second argument to Pattern.compile.

A | in a character class can match a literal |. The nature of the
character class effectively ORs its sub-expressions, so you do not need
to specify a pipe at all unless you want to match the character |.

The characters / and s inside a character class mean the class can match
either a literal / or literal s. To represent whitespace, use \s.

why this doesn't work?

If nobody has answered your question yet, please post a complete
program, along with sample input.

 

[Jeffrey Schwab]

regular expression match any character including new line

([.|/s]*)

A . inside a character class means the class can match any character
other than newline. You can make it match newlines, too, by making
Pattern.DOTALL the second argument to Pattern.compile.

A | in a character class can match a literal |. The nature of the
character class effectively ORs its sub-expressions, so you do not need
to specify a pipe at all unless you want to match the character |.

The characters / and s inside a character class mean the class can match
either a literal / or literal s. To represent whitespace, use \s.

why this doesn't work?

If nobody has answered your question yet, please post a complete
program, along with sample input.

I just realized what you were going for. ITYM ((?:.|\s)*). The better
solution, as Arne suggested, is Pattern.compile(".", Pattern.DOTALL).

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

regular expression match any character including new line

([.|/s]*)

why this doesn't work?

You are mixing notations. The "|" means either-or outside of a
character class, but it's just the "|" character inside a character
class. (A character class is what is defined by square brackets,
"["..."]"). Also, "/s" should probably be "\s".
Use either
[.\s]
or
.|\s (properly parenthesised: (?:.|\s) and remember that backslash
must be escaped inside string literals),
or better yet, use the DOTALL flag to specify that "." also matches
newlines.

/L

 

[Jussi Piitulainen]

regular expression match any character including new line

([.|/s]*)

why this doesn't work?

That pattern matches only sequences that consist of
the four literal characters inside the brackets. The
dot, in particular, "loses its special meaning inside
a character class".

 

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

[.\s]

This doesn't work, of course, since "." isn't significant inside
a character class. Instead you can use
[\s\S]
i.e., match any character that is either a whitespace or not a
whitespace.

/L