Initialize multiline field with JETI regular expression

[Michael Schlueter _secunet_]

I'm trying to create JIRA issues based on an incoming email using the JETI plugin. I've created field initialization rules to initialize the JIRA fields. The email contains XML-style data, so I can use this kind of regular expression "<tag>(.*)</tag>" which extracts the data and fills the JIRA field. However, this works only if the data does not contains a line break, because the "." matches everything but newline. How can I specify a regular expression that can be used for multiline text aswell?

[Petar Petrov (Appfire) · Accepted solution]

I haven't used JETI, but assuming that it uses the Java Pattern class, you should be able to use the embedded flag (?s) to match new lines:

<tag>(?s)(.*)(?-s)</tag>

This is equivalent to enabling the DOTALL flag.

[Michael Schlueter _secunet_]

This works perfectly well! Thanks a lot!