Matching multiline Patterns

Question

I want to use greasemonkey to scrape wiki data from Last.fm (this is not possible with their REST api). I can grab the page fine with GM_xmlhttpRequest(), and it is returnin

Answer 1

Try (.*?) instead of (.+)

Answer 2

try [\s\S], because [^] doesn't work in IE8

Answer 3

The dot doesn't match newlines in javascript -- a quirk of js's regex flavor.

[^] should work instead (e.g. "Everything except absolutely nothing")