The '.' character matchs anything other than newlines. I think you
may need to replace it with something like '[.|\n]' which should match
either any character other than newline OR a newline.
Al Danks wrote:
David B Funk <dbfunk <at> engineering.uiowa.edu> writes:
/(\b(best|most|more|((best|bett|bigg|larg|fast|quick)(er|est)))\b.*){4}/i
What kind of search rule are you using?
If you want your pattern to match consecutive new-line characters
(IE blank lines) then you must use the 'full' type rule.
David,
I'm using the rule at the top of the message. I tried changing body to full,
but the results were the same. (noted below). I'm not looking to match new-line
characters. I would like a rule that was not restricted by how many newlines
might occur between the text searched for. The rule above obviously is.
After a bit of testing I've discovered that the rule doesn't trip when there is
a blank line between lines containing the search text.
We are bigger.
He is faster.
She is quicker.
I am better.
works.
We are bigger.
He is faster.
She is quicker.
I am better.
Does not work.
If we can get the rule to work with variable blank lines then we are in
business.
