Regular expression: you should not use dot to match any character in Java/Groovy

Recently I just realize that in if you want to match "any character" in  Java/Groovy, you should not use dot match (.).

The reason is: dot match only works for single line text, will not work for line breaks.  For the multiple lines text matching, the solution to match any character is using [\s\S].

Please refer this article for details.

For example, following code snippet is used for stripping the javascript code in the text

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