I had said,
| > As I discussed when similar code came up in another thread, I don't
| > think that the trailing newline will cause a problem, and the second
| > condition [to strip the trailing newline from $MATCH] is likely unnecessary:
To which Ed Sabol rejoined,
| Frankly, I don't believe that (though I haven't tested it or looked at the
| source code) and, if your statement is true, I would consider it a major bug!
Or maybe it's a bug if this drops the trailing newline:
:0
* text\/more_text$
{ variable="$MATCH" }
but not if this does:
:0
* text\/more_text$
{ variable=$MATCH }
Only testing will tell for sure, so we'll have to get about doing that.