how to represent "anything" using regular expression in VB.net?

[tommy_cs]

How should I write a regular expression if I want to get a paragraph start from ABC, follow by anything includes newline, space, tab, any characters and end with DEF?

I try to do it as follow but it match nothing.

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(input, "ABC[\s\w\d]*DEF").Groups(0).ToString


thanks a lot.

 

[cjard]

Oh, and to answer the original question:

"How to represent anything?"

That would be .* in greedy mode (swallows the entire input, then spits back one at a time, looking for a match)

Or .*? in pessimistic mode (nibbles forward one at a time, looking for a match)

Occasionally .*+ in possessive mode (swallows entire input and doesnt spit back) though its usefulness is limited

 

[tommy_cs]

Oh, and to answer the original question:

"How to represent anything?"

That would be .* in greedy mode (swallows the entire input, then spits back one at a time, looking for a match)

Or .*? in pessimistic mode (nibbles forward one at a time, looking for a match)

Occasionally .*+ in possessive mode (swallows entire input and doesnt spit back) though its usefulness is limited

ic..learnt a lot