Matching across line breaks
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 1:26 pmHi 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:
(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
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