From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T11:33:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Newlines included in bracket negation


On Oct 26, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Chris Morris wrote:

> Adding \n inside the brackets fixes it, I just wouldn't expect to  
> have to do
> this since I didn't add the multiline mode option.
>
> require 'test/unit'
>
> class TestRE < Test::Unit::TestCase
>   def test_newlines
>     src = "happy\n\nbirthday"
>     assert_equal("hday", src.scan(/h[^x\n]*?day/).to_s)
>   end
> end

from memory, 'multiline' affects *only* the behavior of '.' in res   
the re

   [^x] => 'not x'

simply matches any char that is not 'x' - including newline

it's the same in perl and python iirc

cheers.

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