[ale] OT Java Regular expression question

[jwl at sgi.com (Jim Lynch)]

Does anyone know how to do a greedy match across newlines in java REs?

For instance:

text = "xxxabc123xyzxxx";
RE pattern = "abc(.*?)xyz";

newtext = pattern.substitute("NEW");

System.out.println(newtext);

Outputs xxxNEWxxx
But fails if text="xxxabc\n123xyzxxx";

substituteAll doesn't work either.  Perl of course requires the /g
option and python has something equivalent, but I haven't figured out
what the java equivalent is.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jim.

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