From: Damian Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>
> No. That's my point. I want to match BANG followed by maximal whitespace
> followed by another BANG. But a line-by-line filter fails dismally if that
> maximal whitespace contains a newline.
>
> Admittedly this particular example is contrived for effect, but I have
> now used your excellent module in numerous projects when constructs *can*
> cross newline boundaries and it's always painful to do (hence the new
> module). In fact, I would claim that filtering constructs across
> newline boundaries is the *norm*, since newlines are just whitespace most
> places in Perl.
Aaah! I see where you are coming from now. Is that mentioned in the RFC and
module docs? If not, it really needs to be emphasised. It completely passed
me by.
If you like, next time I do a Filters release, I'll update my documentation
to mention your module.
Paul
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