title: Netbeans Multi-line Regular Expression Search
body: <p>I'm trying to search for all the HTML input tags with a type of 'text' inside Netbeans 6.9. </p>
  
  <p>Does Netbeans support searching for string using regular expressions with different search criteria spread across multiple lines or does it only work within a single line?</p>
  
  <p>This regular expression</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input.*type=['"]text['"].*/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>works when the entire tag and its attributes are written in a single line like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input name="data[something]" id="some_id" value="some_value" type="text" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But because I avoid writing long lines of code and break them as such</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input name="data[something]" id="some_id"
         value="some_value" type="text" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the same regular expression does not work. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a way this could be achieved?</p>