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On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:03:34PM -0700, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

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> Python has an re.MULTILINE option you can pass to the regular expression so 
> that it can cross lines.  Perhaps Perl or your favorite regular expression 
> toolkit has something similar?

That would be the s modifier for a Perl regexp (treat string as a single
line):

  $x =~ /.../s

(This basically changes the meaning of . to also match end-of-line
chars. To control whether ^ and $ match beginning/end of string or
beginning/end of line whithin the string, see the m modifier).

> If not, Python it is! (-;

Nah ;-)

Regards
- -- tomás
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