From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-09-01T18:26:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a regular pattern

Hi --

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Sebastian Hungerecker wrote:

> Zhao Yi wrote:
>> Why? It should match any character.
>
> Yes, but so does just . when you specify the m modifier. So why make it [.\s]
> if you can just do . ?

It depends whether you want to use . without including \n somewhere
else in your regex, and therefore don't want the m modifier.


David

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