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How do I match across line breaks with JavaScript regular expressions?

I have this expression:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $.validator.addMethod(
        "regex",
        function(value, element) {
            return this.optional(element) || /^(?!.*www)(?!.*http)(?!.*@)(?!.*\.com)(?!.*\.pt)(?!.*co\.uk).+$/i.test(value);
        },
        "Description field can not include e-mail and/or urls."
    );
    $("#regForm").validate();
});

If I have a text like this, I get an error, because of the line break

A Loja virtual possui uma vasta linha de bijouterias folheadas a ouro e prata. São produtos bastante procurados e com preços muito acessíveis(50% de desconto no atacado).
Ha mais de 10 anos no mercado de folheados.

Produtos de excelente qualidade.

If I have this text, without line breaks, it works fine:

A Loja virtual possui uma vasta linha de bijouterias folheadas a ouro e prata. São produtos bastante procurados e com preços muito acessíveis(50% de desconto no atacado).Ha  mais de 10 anos no mercado de folheados.Produtos de excelente qualidade.

How can I fix this?

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RAN Avatar asked Oct 16 '25 11:10

RAN


1 Answers

. does not match linebreaks by default. Usually, the s (called singleline or dotall) modifier changes that. Unfortunately, it is not supported by JavaScript.

There is (a slightly verbose) trick to get around that. The character class [\s\S] matches any space and any non-space character. I.e. any character. So you would need to go with this:

/^(?![\s\S]*www)(?![\s\S]*http)(?![\s\S]*@)(?![\s\S]*\.com)(?![\s\S]*\.pt)(?![\s\S]*co\.uk)[\s\S]+$/i

Alternatively, (only in JavaScript) you can use the "candle operator" [^] which also matches any single character (since it's a negation of the empty character class, i.e. it matches any character not in the empty set). Whether you find that more or less readable is a matter of taste I guess:

/^(?![^]*www)(?![^]*http)(?![^]*@)(?![^]*\.com)(?![^]*\.pt)(?![^]*co\.uk)[^]+$/i
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Martin Ender Avatar answered Oct 18 '25 23:10

Martin Ender



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