Match line break with regular expression

Question

lt li gt  lt a href     gt Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Permits     Provides information on the various permits that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issues as well as online access for acquiring those permits    I want to use a regular expression to insert  lt  a gt  at the end of Permits  It just so happens that all of my similiar blocks of html text already have a line break in them  I believe I need to find a line break  n where the line contains or starts with   lt li gt  lt a href     gt

User · Accepted Answer

You could search for    lt li gt  lt a href     gt    n     And replace with    0 lt  a gt    Where  0 is the whole match  The exact semantics will depend on the language are you using though     WARNING  You should avoid parsing HTML with regex  Here s why

User · Answer

By default    any character  does not match newline characters  This means you can simply match zero or more of any character then append the end tag  Find   lt li gt  lt a href  quot   quot  gt    Replace   0 lt  a gt

[regex] Match line break with regular expression

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