On 11 Apr, David W. Tamkin wrote:
| Rejo Zenger asked,
|
|| Is there an easy way to match on multiple lines, regardless where in the
|| regexp the new line starts? I have regexps like these:
||
|| * 1^1 we (always )?(respect|honor) (all )?remov(al|e) requests
||
|| However, if in the spam this is split into two lines, this regexp will
|| not match it. Any ideas?
|
| Rik Kabel had one: use (\<)+ instead of a space. (\>)+ works as well. \<
| and \> can match newlines.
|
I use these extensively in body matches but have never enclosed them in
parentheses unless they were part of an alternation. I've never noticed
any ill effects though I'm not sure I would. A quick test indicates the
parentheses are not needed to "protect" the \> or \< tokens when
followed by a + modifier. Is that correct, and are the parentheses
syntactic sugar, or have I missed something?
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