jeff sacksteder wrote: > Regex questions seem to be rather resistant to googling. > > My regex currently looks like - 'FOO:.*\n\n' > > The chunk of text I am attempting to locate is a line beginning with > "FOO:", followed by an unknown number of lines, terminating with a > blank line. Clearly the ".*" phrase does not match the single newlines > occuring inside the block.
Include the re.DOTALL flag when you compile the regular expression. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list