Multi line regex search matches more than i want

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:30 am

I want to search items spread over multiple lines in a XML file. The number of lines that will match the search can vary. If i use "Dot matches newline" TextCrawler selects everything till the last match.
Example:
<a>Test1
abc
def
</a>
<a>Test2
ghi
jkl
mno
</a>
If i search <a>Test1.*</a> TextCrawler matches till the last </a> while i want to match till the first occurence of </a>.

Is it possible to use TextCrawler this way?

Thank You and kind regards,

Marcel

Daniel Powell · Post by **Daniel Powell** » Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:52 pm

Make it non-greedy like so
<a>Test1.*?</a>

or to match both:

<a>[\s\w]+?.*?</a>

Marcel · Post by **Marcel** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:59 am

Daniel,

Thank You very much!
I didn't knew the ? operator could help...

Kind regards,

Marcel