Enabling multiline search with pcre:yes
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You can also search using the
PCRE subset supported by RE2
by adding pcre:yes to your search. When you use pcre:yes, the entire
search expression is treated as a perl-compatible regular expression.
This is particularly useful when you want to do a search across line breaks.
A search for {\s+generate_java pcre:yes finds
mojom("mojom") {
generate_java = true
while the search {\s+generate_java will not because { is not on the same line as generate_java.
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Last updated 2023-10-03 UTC.
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