How to ignore newline in regexp?

Question

How to ignore newline in regexp in Javascript ?

for example:

 data = "\
    <test>11\n
    1</test>\n\
    #EXTM3U\n\
 "
 var reg = new RegExp( "\<" + "test" + "\>(.*?)\<\/" + "test" + "\>" )
 var match = data.match(reg)
 console.log(match[1])

result: undefined

Answer 1

In JavaScript, there is no flag to tell to RegExp() that . should match newlines. So, you need to use a workaround e.g. [\s\S].

Your RegExp would then look like this:

var reg = new RegExp( "\<" + "test" + "\>([\s\S]*?)\<\/" + "test" + "\>" );

Answer 2

You are missing a JS newline character \ at the end of line 2.

Also, change regexp to:

 var data = "\
    <test>11\n\
    1</test>\n\
    #EXTM3U\n\
 ";
 var reg = new RegExp(/<test>(.|\s)*<\/test>/);
 var match = data.match(reg);
 console.log(match[0]);

http://jsfiddle.net/samliew/DPc2E/