Ignoring line breaks in Javascript regex

Question

Even if I use the m flag, javascript regex seems to isolate regex matching by lines.

Example:

"if\nend".match(/if(.*?)end/m)
=> null

I want this to match. How do I get around this?

Answer 1

You actually want s (a.k.a. "dotall"), not m, but javascript doesn't support that. A workaround:

"if\nend".match(/if([\s\S]*?)end/)