Regular Expression To Match Multiple Lines Of Text

I am trying to match lines that start with and end with the following tags using regular expressions:

<Description>
</Description>

Inbetween the tags, there can be multiple lines of text, how can I match this value? Example description tag:

<Description> test1 test2 test3 test4
</Description>

I tried multiple variants of regular expressions which have not worked, here's the latest one I tried:

<Description>(\n.*)</Description>

EDIT: I am using Visual Studio 17s find/replace component when using regular expressions. Also, there are multiple instances of the description tags.

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2 Answers

This works for me in Visual Studio:

<Description>(\n|.)*?</Description>

It searches for end-of-line or any character, repeated, but not greedy (?).

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Try:

<Description>([\s\S]*)</Description>

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