DOTALL for String.matches（）

Question

I know that DOTALL is available for the fully fledged Pattern+Matcher classes.

But if I want to only use String.matches() , is there a way to tell it to use the DOTALL modifier?

Answer 1

You can enable it with the embedded flag (?s) , as in

"\n".matches("(?s)."); // true

Here's the Javadoc .