Can anyone tell me if I can combine flags like re.IGNORECASE, re.MULTILINE and re.DOTALL for regular expression matching?
r = re.compile(regex, re.IGNORECASE | re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
I need to match an entire paragraph or an expression in one line according to the use case.
Yes, you can combine regex flags with |.
The documentation https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re.compile specifically says:
The expression’s behaviour can be modified by specifying a flags value. Values can be any of the following variables, combined using bitwise OR (the
|operator).