javascript regex replace multiline strings

Asked May 18 '16 at 09:34

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I have a regex replace running in my javascript that looks likes this,

this.set('activity', activity.replace(/{(object)}(.*?){\/\1}/gi, '<a href="' + object_link + '" class="' + linkClass + '">$2</a>'));
this.set('activity', activity.replace(/{(object)}(.*?){\/\1}/gi, '<a href="' + object_link + '" class="' + linkClass + '">$2</a>'));

The above works great when the strings look something like this,

{blockquote}{object}Joe Bloggs{/object} did something great!{/blockquote}

However if the strings is multi-line, i.e

{blockquote}{object}Joe Bloggs{/object} did something great  
and it broke on to two lines{/blockquote}

I thought I would be able to just add the multiline check in to my regExp, like so,

this.set('activity', activity.replace(/{(object)}(.*?){\/\1}/gmi, '<a href="' + object_link + '" class="' + linkClass + '">$2</a>'));
this.set('activity', activity.replace(/{(object)}(.*?){\/\1}/gmi, '<a href="' + object_link + '" class="' + linkClass + '">$2</a>'));

But it does not parse out the {object} and {blockquotes} as it does for single line of text

Any ideas why?

edited May 18 '16 at 09:42

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instead `.` use `[\S\s]` – Pranav C Balan May 18 '16 at 09:35
sorry where would that go? – Udders May 18 '16 at 09:37
Use `[^]` to match any symbol in JS (inside BMP plane). – Wiktor Stribiżew May 18 '16 at 09:46
Try this `this.set('activity', activity.replace(/{(object)}([\s\S]*?){\/\1}/gi, '$2')); ` try you test string here: [Regex101][1] [1]: https://regex101.com/r/iL2iH0/1 – Faheem Alam May 18 '16 at 09:47

javascript regex replace multiline strings

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