Govinda <govinda.webdnat...@gmail.com> sez: >> I need to do a grep search/replace: >> >> find: >> one string literal.. followed by any number of any chars... >> followed by another string literal >> [...] >..but why does the search pattern I mention in my orig. post fail?
The short answer :) is that (\s|\S)*? in the original pattern requires the search to do too much work when applied against more than a small amount of text. The best way to match a multi-line `chunk of text` is: (?s).+? # or ((?s).+?) if you want to preserve the matched text where the pre-pended (?s) allows . to match line breaks, and I suggest keeping this in the top drawer of your grep toolbox. :-) Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com> P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 01730-1048 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
