如何在 Atom 编辑器的正则表达式中匹配多行中的任何字符？

Question

I wrote a RegEx to match any character across multiple lines between two tags in Atom.

This is my RegEx:

<column name=\"body\">([\s\S]*)<\/column>

This is the content of my file:

<column name="body">Lorem ipsum dolor 1.
Si stante, hoc natura videlicet vult;
Est, ut dicis, inquam.</column>
<column name="body">Lorem ipsum dolor 2.
Si stante, hoc natura videlicet vult;
Est, ut dicis, inquam.</column>

Unfortunately the RegEx matches everything. What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try adding the "non-greedy" ? quantifier, like this:

<column name=\"body\">([\s\S])*?<\/column>

It will make the ([\\s\\S]) capture group match as few times as possible. Without the ? , it will match as many as possible.