Question

Hallo,

I have the following syntax:

@AAAA{tralala10aa,
  author = {Some Author},
  title = {Some Title},
  booktitle = {Some Booktitle},
  year = {2010},
  month = {March},
  booktitle_short = {CC 2010},
  conference_url = {http://www.mmmm.com},
  projects = {projects}
}

….

I’ve made the following regular expression:

@[A-Z]*[{][a-z0-9]*[,]

but I need the whole text block. How can I do it ?

Answer 1

If the “block” always ends with a lone closing brace, then this maywill do it:

"(?ms)@[A-Z]+\\{.+?^\\}$"

Where (?ms) sets the expression to “multiline” and “dotall” (so the .+ can also match newlines), and the stuff at the end matches a closing brace on a line by itself.

The question mark in the middle makes the .+ match non-greedy so it won’t match all blocks up to and including the last block in the file.