gsub, help please

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I want to find all content between <code> tags in a string and replace the content of these with new formatted content. Any suggestions why the following code is not working?

self.content = self.content.gsub(/<code>(.*?)<\/code>/, 'new content')

Nope, because it is working:

irb(main):026:0> "This is <code>stuff</code>".gsub(/<code>(.*?)<\/

/, 'new content')

=> "This is new content"

You need to provide more details and code if you're experiencing something different.

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Hi,

found that it breaks if there is a new line '\n' within the <code>. Does anyone know how to get the (.*?) to accept new lines ( \n )   

you can set a multiline regexp pattern by adding m after the pattern, like in /.*/m

regards,

javier ramirez