[blueflinko]

I have a bunch of text and I am wanting to find the start and end of the text as well as everything between.

Basically the text starts with either "case" or "story" and then will have anything after that including various punctuation, end lines, characters, etc. It will then end with either the word "end" or "tbc".

Example:
story starts here and
will keep going, and going. At some point
anywhere it will be done.
the end
case will sometimes follow or another
of the first option will contine
tbc

I can do this (case|story).* but it just gets the first line. I cant figure out how to get the whole thing. Basically I want to see two groupings of one with the story and the other with the case.

I am new at regex. HELP!

[ManiacDan]

Generally, it's good to tell us what language you're trying to use the regex in. A PHP solution:

$stories = 'story starts here and
will keep going, and going. At some point
anywhere it will be done.
the end
case will sometimes follow or another
of the first option will contine
tbc';

preg_match_all("/(story|case).+?(end|tbc)$/ims", $stories, $foo);

echo "Story 1: {$foo[0][0]}\n\n\nStory 2: {$foo[0][1]}";
//etc, all matched stories will be in the array $foo[0] 

-Dan

[blueflinko]

Sorry! Language is C#.

[ManiacDan]

The epxression should still work, though you'd have to figure out how to do "flags" in C#. The "ims" at the end of my expression is critical.

-Dan