From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-12-03T07:57:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Please recommend a regular expression excluding return character. ..

The '.' doesn't match newlines.

 $ irb
>>  "\n" =~ /./
=> nil
>>  "\n" =~ /\n/
=> 0
>>  



On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:55:18AM +0900, Kurt Euler wrote:
> All-
> 
> Can anyone recommend a regular expression that excludes the return
> character?
> 
> My objective is to find occurances of a string WITHIN A LINE of a  text
> file. Thus, if givein some_string1 and some_string2, match:
> 
> <some_string1><any_character/number/tab/forward-slash/etc_but_no_hard_return
> ><some_string2>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Kurt Euler
> 
> 
> 

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