Multiline regular expression in Python

Asked Apr 25 '19 at 09:42

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I want to search for all the text that starts with the word "abc" and ends with a ";". This text can span across multiple lines and can have space/tab in-between them.

I tried, re.compile(r"""abc.+;""", re.DOTALL) It returns everying from the first occurance of "abc" to the last occurance of ";" as a single object. But I want the first "abc" to match to first ";" in first object, second "abc" to second ";" in second object and so on

I also tried, re.MULTILINE, it returns nothing.

None of the following worked:

re.compile(r"""abc(.|\s)+;""", re.MULTILINE)

re.compile(r"""abc[.\s]+;""", re.MULTILINE)

Any help is appreciated.

asked Apr 25 '19 at 09:42

user3219492

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Use non-greedy modifier `abc.*?;` with flag DOTALL OR better use `abc[\w\W]*?;` – Pushpesh Kumar Rajwanshi Apr 25 '19 at 09:43
@PushpeshKumarRajwanshi Can you please add it as an answer? I will accept it. – user3219492 Apr 25 '19 at 17:18
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This post already has a solution in the linked duplicate post, so can't add as answer and indeed not needed, but thanks for offering that. Glad I could help you :) – Pushpesh Kumar Rajwanshi Apr 25 '19 at 17:20

Multiline regular expression in Python

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