Regular expression match string and then next two lines

Question

I want to match a following string:

  window.universal = {
    yada yada ydada.....
  };

The following return the first line. I need next two as well

re.search(r'.*window.universal.*', content).group(0)

I tired re.MULTILINE, \\s

Answer 1

• You need DOTALL.
• also the two .* will give you almost everything with dotall.

try this:

 re.search(r'window.universal = {.*?};',content,re.DOTALL).group(0)

Answer 2

You can use this regex: r'(?s).*pattern.*'

• re.M (multi-line) <<< we don't need this option
• re.S (dot matches all)