Multiline Regex

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Hello all,

I am trying to split a long regex into different lines. I am aware that string macros can be called with triple quotes. However this introduces a newline at the end. Any way of avoiding this?

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Perhaps you’d like regex “comment mode” where non-significant whitespace and comments are allowed within the regex string. This is enabled with the x suffix to the r string macro:

julia> match(r"(aa|   # a comment
                bb|
                cc)"x, "bb")
RegexMatch("bb", 1="bb")
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Yes, this solves exactly the issue (also for the triple quotes). Thank you!