Andrey
Reputation: 400
Why this re.search not working
Why re.search can't find the pattern?
str = "<a href='http://'>\ntest\n'</a>"
re.search(r"<a[^>]+>.", str, re.MULTILINE)
Upvotes: 2
Views: 553
Answers (1)
John La Rooy
Reputation: 304137
. won't match a newline unless you use re.DOTALL
mystr = "<a href='http://'>\ntest\n'</a>"
re.search(r"<a[^>]+>.", mystr, re.MULTILINE|re.DOTALL)
Upvotes: 6
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