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My Regex requires modifications to ignore blank lines


ballouta

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Hello

I spent literally 5 hours creating the following regex for a friend of mine!

(?s)(?=Configuration)(.*?)(?>onal\)\:)

The regex is supposed to capture several lines from a static content that starts with the word Configuration and ends with the word (optional):

This content has sometimes a new blank line and sometimes two empty lines.

Is it possible you kindly assist me in modifying the above regex so it extracts all the text needed, at the same time it ignores all new/blank lines?

Text Sample:

Hello

Configuration There is something here
s

bbye

optional):

Hoping for this output:

Hello

Configuration There is something here
s
bbye
optional):

We are using the function reg_match.

 

Thank you

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Did you figure out a solution? One potential option, without regex, is to process the input line by line. Once you locate the line that starts with "Configuration", you can start ignoring lines that are blank. You would ignore lines that are blank until you reach the line that ends with "optional):". Then you would output the information as it is processed.

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