RegexdrillMultiline flag: TODO lines
A regex exercise from Regexdrill. Solve it with a pattern box with live highlighting in your browser, checked against hidden test strings, and it is checked the moment you submit.
The task
Each test is a block of several lines. Capture the text after TODO: on every line that starts with TODO: (TODO, colon, space).
What this exercise teaches
^TODO: (.*)$ with the g and m flags finds every line that begins with TODO:. The dot does not cross line breaks, so each capture stays on its own line.
A hint if you get stuck
With the m flag, ^ and $ match at the start and end of every line, not just the whole text.
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