Allow regexes to match newlines.
Section: PCRE2 features
Search across line boundaries
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rg -U 'foo\nbar' sample.txtExplanation
`-U` disables the line-based restriction so patterns can span lines; combine with care because it can increase work and output size.
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Use the PCRE2 engine
Turn on advanced regex features such as look-around.
Use look-ahead assertions
Match only when text is followed by another fragment.
Use Unicode-aware classes
Search for letters with Unicode-aware semantics.
Search a literal pattern with PCRE2 multiline support
Match text spanning lines using a more powerful regex engine.