Let's say I've got the following string in a file:
"skkjnfinduekasdhelkjadfoijejdklk"
Between each character in the string, there can be zero or more newlines. So the file could look something like this: 
s
kkjn




find
ue
k


asd
helkjadfoijejdklk
My question is, is there a way to tell the RE engine to ignore newline characters so I don't have to write 
/u\n*e\n*k\n*a\n*s\n*d\n*h\n*/
to match the string 
"uekasdh"
?

While the above is simple enough to type for a short string, for longer ones I'd have to use function to generate the RE which seems a little too weird.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I would like to be able to replace a string like "ue\nk\n\n\nasd\nh" in the example file above with another string like "jjjjjjj" but I want to keep the other the newlines in the file in tact. In other words, I want to avoid stripping the newlines out of the file to do the search.

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