Censor Rules Cannot be Multi-Line

[RichardTaylor]

Currently a multi-line censor rule doesn't work.

This means administrators often have to create tens of single-line censor rules to censor large blocks of text. This can be time consuming and annoying.

[bjh21]

My experience is that they can sometimes be multi-line, in that I can replace what look like newlines in a request with spaces in the censor rule and get useful results.

More generally, though, an option for fuzzier matching of long censor rules would make it easier to create them.

[sebbacon]

Can you supply an example so I can write a test for this?

[RichardTaylor]

As an example: My first attempt at a censor rule at https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/foi/request/show/93647 failed

[sebbacon]

@pepe has made a start on supporting regex-based censor rules, which might be the right solution for this: pepe@befd6de

[RichardTaylor]

Request 485932 needed ~20 line by line censor rules to remove material. A censor rules based on multi-line text didn't work.

Perhaps this could have been dealt with by a regular expression censor rule?