Regexp to match any character, including newline?

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "JF" == Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com> writes:

JF> It is sometimes a nuisance that "." in a regexp does not match
JF> newlines.  For example, I want a regexp for text in parentheses that
JF> contains the word "and" followed (anywhere) by a date.

JF>   (.+ and .+ [1-2][0-9][0-9][0-9].+)

What about something like:

\(.*[\n]\) 

;; Warning, can cause regexp stack overflow.

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