string/replace regex help

[Kuba Roth]

Hi,
This is more of a regex specific question the clojure, but anyway...
I have the a multiline string as follow:
(def myText "aaaaaSTART
bbbb
cccc
END
eeeeee
ff
ggg
START
hhhhhhhh
ii               E
jjjj
END
kkkkkkkk
llll")


.. and I need to replace all text between START END 'keywords' blocks.
The following regex:
(clojure.string/replace myText #"START([^END])*" "======")

does sort of what I'm hoping to get but does not guard me against cases when one of the "END" (in this case          E)   characters shows up in the middle of the block to be cut.
So my question comes down to what am I missing here? :)

Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
Thanks,
kuba

[John Wiseman]

(clojure.string/replace myText #"(?s)START.*?END" "======")

;; "aaaaa======\neeeeee\nff\nggg\n======\nkkkkkkkk\nllll"

(?s) specifies multi-line mode, *? is the non-greedy form of *.

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[Kuba Roth]

Sweet! Thanks so much!

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