From: Edward Faulkner <ef@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T08:17:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Question concerning multiline regexps and best practice

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On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 07:47:34AM +0900, Oliver Andrich wrote:
>=20
> But sadly inside a HERE document, the \n at the end of a line are
> used by the regexp. Is it possible to write a HERE document or
> something like that with \n inside, but afterwards the \n the source
> are skipped?

The cleanest solution is to make a regular expression that can work
regardless of the presence of newlines.  You probably want multiline
mode.  I'd need to see your specific example.

Or you could strip out the newlines with mystring.sub("\n","").

regards,
Ed

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