im banging my head against a wall with this. Im sure theres an easy way
to solve this.
Say i have this string
“xxx cfghyrfhyuijhcdf xxxx”
and i want all letters between the x`s
i would write something like this
/x*?(.?)x/
but if there are some unknown number of newlines seperating those
letters like so
“xxx cfg\nhyrfh\nyuij\nhcdf xxxx”
that reg fails
I tried
/x*?(.|\n)?x/
but match[1] can return a “” if it reaches a newline first rather than
the full sequence of letters and newlines (i dont mind having the
newlines returned)
I know i can simply gsub all hte newlines out of the string first but
just wondering if theres a way round this with a regexp