How do we match any single character including line feed in Perl regular expression?

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I would like to use UltraEdit regular expression (perl) to replace the following text with some other text in a bunch of html files:

<style type="text/css">

#some-id{}

.some-class{}

//many other css styles follow

</style>

I tried to use <style type="text/css">.*</style> but of course it wouldn't match anything because the dot matches any character except line feed. I would like to match line feed as well and the line feed maybe either \r\n or \n.

How should the regular expression look like?

Many thanks to you all.

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