Kent Johnson wrote: > Luke Paireepinart wrote: > >> doug shawhan wrote: >> >>> I've been looking through various sites, but cannot find the magic >>> button that allows me to match a string with linefeeds >>> I'd rather not strip out the linefeeds, then stick them back in. :-) >>> >>> I'm attempting something that should be fairly simple: >>> >>> snippy = re.compile('Hi there.*Bye there.') >>> >> Your RE is wrong. >> Refer to http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html >> * Causes the resulting RE to match 0 or more repetitions of the >> preceding RE, as many repetitions as are possible. ab* will match 'a', >> 'ab', or 'a' followed by any number of 'b's. >> > > The RE that is repeated is . which is the intent. > Yeah, sorry. I thought there was a space after the ., which wouldn't work, right?
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