Regular Expression: How To Match A String Containing "\n" (newline)?

I'm trying to dump data from a SQL export file with regular expression. To match the field of post content, I use '(?P.*?)'. It works fine most of the time, but if t

Solution 1:

You should use DOTALL option:

>>> re.findall("'(?P<content>.*?)'","'<p>something, \n something else</p>'", re.DOTALL)
['<p>something, \n something else</p>']

See this.

Solution 2:

You need the Dotall modifier, to make the dot also match newline characters.

re.S re.DOTALL Make the '.' special character match any character at all, including a newline; without this flag, '.' will match anything except a newline.

See it here on docs.python.org