Text Filter regex - Filtering out comments that span multiple new lines

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I would like Meld to ignore block quotes in languages like SQL, where the block quote may contain a newline. Is there any trick to configuring this, or would this require a code change?

So far I can get Meld to ignore

/*thing 1 thing 2*/

but not

/*thing 1 
thing 2*/

I’m using this regex:

/\*[\s\S]*\*/

…with the goal of ignoring any string starting with /* and ending with */

ex2
ex2493×654 34 KB

ex1
ex1936×186 13.7 KB

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Because of how they’re implemented, Meld filters don’t support regexes that change the number of lines in the comparison file. You may be able to add \n to your middle character set to get what you want, but the resulting comparison may be wrong (and any related bugs are just straight-up wont-fix).