From: Sebastian Hungerecker <sepp2k@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T16:52:16+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions on strings with multiple newlines

Adam Akhtar wrote:
> /x*?(.*?)x*/
>
> but if there are some unknown number of newlines seperating those
> letters like so
>
> "xxx cfg\nhyrfh\nyuij\nhcdf xxxx"
>
> that reg fails

>> "xxx cfg\nhyrfh\nyuij\nhcdf xxxx" =~ /x*?(.*?)x*/m
=> 0
Notice the m.

HTH,
Sebastian
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