On Monday, May 20, 2002, 10:27:39 AM, Michael L. Cusac wrote:

> In general, one RegEx can capture more than one line at a time, but
> after having tried several ideas I believe you're right that TB!'s
> RegEx  will only look at one line at a time.  It would be nice
> to be able to toggle it to handle multiple lines, but for all I know
> that would create some kind of programming nightmare for the
> developers, so I can't really complain.

Different "brands" of Regex handle multiple lines in different ways,
or so I have learnt from Jeffrey Friedl and "Mastering Regular
Expressions" (O'Reilly).  This is a good read if you want to know more
about RegEx.  There is also a free guide to Regex on Perldoc.com
(search for "Perlretut")


Julian

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