On 2017-11-11, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: >> On 2017-11-11, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks. How can I specify the flag in the searches? So, in my example, I >>> tried >>> >>> pandas str /m >>> >>> But that query is not finishing. >>> >> >> '(?i) PanDas' seemed to work. >> > Ok. That works and does case insensitive search. But the corresponding > multiline option does not seem to achieve what I want. I tried > > (?m) pandas str > > and it dies not give any results. >
It doesn't die for me. It gives no results, though. This "works" (for an arbritrary meaning of "work" because I am not cut out for regular expressions or even irregular expressions and I feel a migraine coming on): (?m)(\W|^)panda.*str(\W|$) At least there's results and that's always gratifying (in a way). -- "If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry