Match line break with regular expression

Question

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Permits
    Provides information on the various permits that the Animal and Plant Health Ins         


        

Answer 1

You could search for:

<li><a href="#">[^\n]+

And replace with:

$0</a>

Where $0 is the whole match. The exact semantics will depend on the language are you using though.

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WARNING: You should avoid parsing HTML with regex. Here's why.

Answer 2

By default . (any character) does not match newline characters.

This means you can simply match zero or more of any character then append the end tag.

Find: <li><a href="#">.* Replace: $0</a>