I'm trying to match the From line all the way to the end of the Subject line in the following:
....
From: XXXXXX
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:52:42 -0800
To: XXXXXXX
Subject: XXXXXXX
....
So far I have:
/From:.*Date:.*To:.*Subject/m
But that doesn't match to the end of the subject line. I tried adding $ but that had no effect.
You can use the /m modifier to enable multiline mode (i.e. to allow . to match newlines), and you can use ? to perform non-greedy matching:
message = <<-MSG
Random Line 1
Random Line 2
From: person@example.com
Date: 01-01-2011
To: friend@example.com
Subject: This is the subject line
Random Line 3
Random Line 4
MSG
message.match(/(From:.*Subject.*?)\n/m)[1]
=> "From: person@example.com\nDate: 01-01-2011\nTo: friend@example.com\nSubject: This is the subject line"
See http://ruby-doc.org/core/Regexp.html and search for "multiline mode" and "greedy by default".