From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2013-03-05T21:26:51+09:00
Subject: Re: YourLanguageSucks

On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:08:24 +0100, Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Note that Ruby's "multi line" mode is about matching of "." and not
> about anchoring of ^ and $.  I'm not even sure there is a general
> definition of "multi line mode" for regular expressions across
> language.
>
>> "a\nb\nc"[/^.*$/]
> => "a"
>> "a\nb\nc"[/^.*$/m]
> => "a
> b
> c"

In reasonable languages this is called a 'dotall' mode and denoted with an 's' modifier.

Calling it 'multiline' is dumb and confusing, so let's not do this :) ; it is in fact also called 'singleline' in some sources (which is even dumber).

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Matma Rex