Scala Regex enable Multiline option

Question

I\'m learning Scala, so this is probably pretty noob-irific.

I want to have a multiline regular expression.

In Ruby it would be:

MY_REGEX = /         


        

Answer 1

Just a quick and dirty addendum: the .r method on RichString converts all strings to scala.util.matching.Regex, so you can do something like this:

"""(?s)a.*b""".r replaceAllIn ( "a\nb\nc\n", "A\nB" )

And that will return

A
B
c

I use this all the time for quick and dirty regex-scripting in the scala console.

Or in this case:

def matchNode( value : String ) : Boolean = {

    """(?s).*().*""".r.findAllIn( text ) match {

       case ScriptNode(v) => System.out.println( "found" + v ); true    

       case _ => System.out.println("not found: " + value ) ; false
    }
}

Just my attempt to reduce the use of the word new in code worldwide. ;)