How to capture multiline regex between two tags?
regex
Solution
Depending on your underlying engine use the `s`-modifier (and add `-->` at the end of your expression. This will make the `.` match newline-characters aswell.
If the `s`-flag is not available to you, you may use
<!--((?:.*\r?\n?)*)-->
Explanation:
<!-- #start of comment
( #start of capturing group
(?: #start of non-capturing group
.*\r?\n? #match every character including a line-break
)* #end of non-capturing group, repeated between zero and unlimited times
) #end of capturing group
--> #end of comment
To match multiple comment blocks you can use
/(?:<!--((?:.*?\r?\n?)*)-->)+/g
Demo @ Regex101
Problem
What's the best way to select all text between 2 comment tags? E.g. ``` <!-- Text 1 Text 2 Text 3 --> ``` `<\!--.*` will capture `<!-- Text 1` but not `Text 2`, `Text 3`, or `-->` Edit As per Basti M's answer, `<\!--((?:.*\n)*)-->` will select everything between the first `<!--` and last `-->`. I.e. lines 1 to 11 below. How would I modify this to select just lines within separate tags? i.e. lines 1 to 4: ``` 1 <!-- Text 1 //First 2 Text 2 3 Text 3 4 --> 5 6 More text 7 8 <!-- Text 4 9 Text 5 10 Text 6 11 --> //Last ```