I have troubles with the regexp to get HTML comments ("<!-- some text
-->") from a long (multi-line) string. Comments that have line breaks
aren't found, only the comments that are on the same line.

Here's my current code:
result = s.match(/\<!--(.*?)--\>)

How do I get the regexp to scan for the pattern beyond newlines?


Best regards,

Jari Willimasson

Jari Williamsson wrote:
> I have troubles with the regexp to get HTML comments ("<!-- some text
> -->") from a long (multi-line) string. Comments that have line breaks
> aren't found, only the comments that are on the same line.
>
> Here's my current code:
> result = s.match(/\<!--(.*?)--\>)
>
> How do I get the regexp to scan for the pattern beyond newlines?


Try this one:
result = s.match(/\<!--([\s\S]*?)--\>/)

-- gw

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