Regex to find two words on the page

Question

I\'m trying to find all pages which contain words \"text1\" and \"text2\". My regex:

text1(.|\\n)*text2 

it doesn\'t work..

Answer 1

If you want the regex to match over several lines I would try:

text1[\w\W]*text2

Using . is not a good choice, because it usually doesn't match over multiple lines. Also, for matching single characters I think using square brackets is more idiomatic than using ( ... | ... )

If you want the match to be order-independent then use this:

(?:text1[\w\W]*text2)|(?:text2[\w\W]*text1)