Comments on: Regular Expressions in JavaScript don't support the single-line mode

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:53:30 +0000

Hey Steve, thanks for the update

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:27:00 +0000

If you use the latest XRegExp ( http://stevenlevithan.com/regex/xregexp/ ) instead of the old version you linked to, you also get named capture and many other advanced regex features and cross-browser compatibility fixes.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:20:52 +0000

In the situation above you could use DOM of course if you were actually working on the current document. In case you're obtaining the HTML source of a page somewhere internet you get a string response. While you could still create a new instance of DOMDocument and do the processing, creating and running a Regex is much less code and easier to maintain IMHO.

By: Peter Seale

Peter Seale — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:45:56 +0000

Nitpick: can\'t you use the DOM to manipulate a div tag? Maybe you were dealing with something else–but if your example above matches what you were really trying to accomplish, I\'d point out that you could have found a solution to your problem using the DOM.