From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-09-01T19:01:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a regular pattern

Hi --

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Patrick He wrote:

> Generally, "." matches characters including what "\s" matches.

No, by default . does not match \n. You can make it do so with the /m
modifier.


David

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