How to parse out both single line and multiline in regex?

by cortez.connelly , in category: Third Party Scripts , 12 days ago

How to parse out both single line and multiline in regex?

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by filiberto , 11 days ago

@cortez.connelly 

To parse out both single line and multiline text using regular expressions, you can use the re.DOTALL flag in Python's regex module. This flag allows the . symbol to match any character, including newline characters.


Here's an example of how to use the re.DOTALL flag to parse out both single line and multiline text:

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import re

text = '''This is a single line text.
This is a multiline text.
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3'''

# Parse out single line text
single_line_text = re.findall(r'This is a single line text.', text)
print(single_line_text)

# Parse out multiline text
multiline_text = re.findall(r'Line d+', text, re.DOTALL)
print(multiline_text)


In this example, the first regex pattern matches the single line text "This is a single line text." and the second regex pattern matches all lines that start with "Line" followed by a digit in the multiline text. The re.DOTALL flag is used to ensure that the dot . matches newline characters as well.


You can adjust the regex patterns as needed to match different parts of the text you want to parse out.