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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: re.DOTALL (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 23:54:25 -0000 (UTC)
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On 17 Jul 2024 18:09:51 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

> Below, I use [\s\S] to match each and every character.
>   I can't seem to get the same effect using "re.DOTALL"!

This might help clarify things:

    text = "alpha\n<hr>\ngamma\n<hr>\nepsilon"
    pattern = r'^(.*?)\n(<hr.*?)\n(.*)\n(<hr.*)$'

    re.search(pattern, text, re.DOTALL).groups()

⇒

    ('alpha', '<hr>', 'gamma', '<hr>\nepsilon')