Javascript regular expression - multiple line

Question

I have a file with following text structure and would like to parse date inside into an array ...

21/5/12 14:23:36: A: XXXX
YYY
ZZZ

21/5/12 14:23:25: B: XXX ZZZ YYY

21/5/12 14:23:25: B: XXX ZZZ YYY

I am using data.match(/[^\r\n]+\d+.*/g) to parse data from file and the result is

arr[0], 21/5/12 14:23:36: A: XXXX
arr[1], 21/5/12 14:23:25: B: XXX ZZZ YYY
arr[2], 21/5/12 14:23:25: B: XXX ZZZ YYY

Some text of the first item has been removed which is not desired.

Is it possible to use regular expression to parse the text like this?

Answer 1

I'm not sure the exact requirement. But if there's empty line between each data item, you can do it like this:

var data ="21/5/12 14:23:36: A: XXXX\r\nYYY\nZZZ\r\n\r\n21/5/12 14:23:25: B: XXX ZZZ YYY\r\n\r\n21/5/12 14:23:25: B: XXX ZZZ YYY";
data.split(/\r\n\r\n/);

Result of this code is:

["21/5/12 14:23:36: A: XXXX
YYY
ZZZ", "21/5/12 14:23:25: B: XXX ZZZ YYY", "21/5/12 14:23:25: B: XXX ZZZ YYY"]