New lines messing up my regex

[Stereomike]

Hi, I need help.

My template writes a list of entries to a file, but sometimes it adds empty lines, which sucks big time.
I guess I found the problem, but I don't know how to reliably solve it:

The template grabs a block of text

#-music-#
Get some here.
Wow.
#--#
#-pictures-#
Get pics here.
#--#

Then it parses this block with this regex:

(?<=#-music-#)[\w\W]*?(?=#--#)

(you could try this in the expression builder:
before required text:#-music-#
after required text:#--#
Full text and shortest match ticked.

The problem is, it gives:
|
Get some here.
Wow.
|
|
(| stands for a blank line, inserted for dramatic reasons)
So a blank line above and two below!!!

How do I parse that block without getting the messy blank lines? I hope theres a better solution than deleting line 0 and lines end-1 and end-2 afterwards...

Thanks!

 

[bigcajones]

\r\n

 

[Stereomike]

I tried
before required text:#-music-#\r\n
after required text:#--#
Full text and shortest match ticked.

But it doesn't work that way (nothing found). Did I use it wrong?

 

[gemini]

probably.
If you use regexp builder it would escape your \r\n to \\r\\n which is wrong.
Make sure that final regexp has single bashslash with r and and n - \r\n

 

[Stereomike]

Worked you had to edit the expression to avoid double slashes.

 

[bigcajones]

sorry Mike, I should have put the regex up for you. Was in a hurry. I had 18 holes and an 80 waiting for me if you know what I mean.

 

[Stereomike]

No problem Everything worked out in the end!