How to ignore code snippets in markdown files?

[limorl]

I'm using cspell to spell check all the .md files in our repo.
I want to ignore the shell script code snippets within sh and delimiters.

I'm using ignoreRegExpList as follows:

"ignoreRegExpList": [
        "/```sh(.*?)```/gs",        // shell script
        ".*[.]azurewebsites[.]net", // websites
        "//.*[.](jpg|png)/ig",      // image names
        "/\/.*?\\s/ig"              //file path
    ],

All pattern matches are ignored, except for the first one for the shell code snippets.

[Jason3S]

You have a few options:

One of them is to use comments:

  <!--- cSpell:disable -->
  ``` sh
  $ ls -alF
  ```
  <!--- cSpell:enable -->

The <!--- --> comments will be hidden.

The other option is to fix the regex:

    "ignoreRegExpList": [
        "/(```+)\\s?sh[\\s\\S]+?\\1/g",  // shell script code block
        ....
    ]

[limorl]

Thanks @Jason3S !
That regex worked for me. I wanted to to avoid using 'cSpell:disable'.

What I don't understand is why the original regex I used didn't work. I tested it with https://regex101.com/ (js regex) and it worked.

[Jason3S]

(.*?) won't match across line boundaries.
[\s\S] will match all spaces and non-space characters, meaning it matches everything.

[limorl]

Thanks @Jason3S!! I thought the /s modifier takes care of that....
But I've just realized my mistake - I used the PHP flavor instead of the JavaScript one.
Many thanks!

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