regular expression not matching multi line string

Question

the example sentence is:

"Thanks to this crisis, there has been a wake-up call to some of these neobanks," said Ali Niknam, CEO and founder of Dutch online 
bank Bunq. "To run a healthy business, you need healthy business conduct."

and my regex is

(said)\s.*,\s(CEO and founder of)\s.*\.

I am expecting it to match to

said Ali Niknam, CEO and founder of Dutch online 
bank Bunq.

but it does not due to the break after the word online. is there a way to make it work without modifying the sample text?

ok try this: `said\s[\s\S]*?,\sCEO and founder of\s[\s\S]*?\.` — anubhava, Jan 06 '21 at 06:55

ItaiS · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-06T06:56:35.783

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See here: https://regexr.com/5jms2.

. doesn't include line breaks. You can use (.|\n) instead.
* is greedy by default. Using *? makes it non-greedy, i.e. it matches the minimum amount of text until the next expression is matched (in this case- \.).

edited Jan 06 '21 at 06:56

answered Jan 06 '21 at 06:29

ItaiS

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sorry this is not correct. my problem is different. in my case it is not at all matching anything. – Moblize IT Jan 06 '21 at 06:34
Then the input text in your post may be incorrect. Please check it. – ItaiS Jan 06 '21 at 06:43
see now please. – Moblize IT Jan 06 '21 at 06:50

regular expression not matching multi line string

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