please excuse me, I found the solution:
.*|\n*

thx, Tobi

Tobias Reif schrieb:
> 
> Hi;
> 
> how can I express the following in a regex:
> "all possible characters, including newlines and carriage returns, but
> no quotes"
> 
> this doesn't work:
> (.|\n|\"{0})*
> 
> Or maybe just:
> "all possible characters including newlines"
> (.|\n)*
> doesn't work either
> 
> Tobi
> 
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