Matching across line breaks

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Matching across line breaks Fri Sep 20, 2013 1:26 pm • by quentinsf
Hi there -

I have a bill in which several long-form dates occur, and I can match them with 'contents contain'. The one I actually want to capture occurs on a line after the word DATE:

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DATE
2 September 2013


(I copied the OCRed text and pasted it into a text editor to confirm the structure.) I read that I could match invisible characters such as newline by leaving a space so I tried matching

DATE [date pattern]

but couldn't get it to work. I've tried upper and lower case, multiple spaces, including 'Anything' patterns etc but without any joy. Should this work?

Many thanks for a great tool!
Quentin
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Re: Matching across line breaks Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:10 pm • by Mr_Noodle
It depends. The text in the file may not actually be in the order it looks to you visually. If you email the file in to support, I can take a closer look.
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