From: Bruce Williams <bruce@...>
Date: 2002-12-29T12:28:57+09:00
Subject: Re: How to specify the period "." character when doing a gsub.

On Saturday 28 December 2002 10:13 pm, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
| '.' is indeed a wildcard (or a "metacharater").  It matches anything
| except newline (maybe one or two others - see Pickaxe for details).

Only the newline unless you're in multiline mode (ref: Pickaxe pg 61)

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