Regex python positive multiline lookahead fro specific string

Asked Mar 01 '16 at 23:18

Active Mar 01 '16 at 23:18

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I've been looking through this on regex101 and SO but can't quite figure out what I am doing wrong.

I have a multiline string like:

23. 
     Martin K, Thompson KG, Keegan R, Ball N, Rattray B. Mental fatigue does not mid:25425259. 
                  View Article

and I want to extract everything between the 23. and the "View Article" string.

This regex (multiline enabled):

\d{1,2}.([^?V]*)

does the job but fails if V is in the string itself before it occurs in View....

In other words, I think I am looking for a positive multiline lookahead until "View Article".

Here's a demo of what I've been doing: regex101 demo

asked Mar 01 '16 at 23:18

ben_aaron

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Just `(?s)\d{1,2}\.(.*?)View Article` should be enough. – Wiktor Stribiżew Mar 01 '16 at 23:21
That's exactly what I needed. What does the `(?s)` do? – ben_aaron Mar 01 '16 at 23:29
***s modifier:** single line. Dot matches newline characters* – Shafizadeh Mar 01 '16 at 23:31
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The `(?s)` is an inline DOTALL modifier. – Wiktor Stribiżew Mar 01 '16 at 23:42

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