From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-09-01T18:28:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a regular pattern

2008/9/1 Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@googlemail.com>:
> 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 . ?

One reason would be that you need option /m which is effective for the
whole RX. You can avoid that by doing /(?m:.)/

Cheers

robert

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