regex over multiple lines in Groovy

Question

I have a multiple line string like following:

END IF;

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE \' CREATE INDEX #idx1
      ON somename ( row         


        

Answer 1

(?m) makes the regex multiline - allows you to match beginning (^) and end ($) of string operators (in this case, to match the beginnings and ends of individual lines, rather than the whole string):

/(?m)(EXECUTE).*?;/

(?s) - dotall flag - makes the regex match newlines with . (dot) operators:

/(?s)(EXECUTE).*?;/