Re: [perl #34287] perlfaq6: /m matching beyond the first newline
by Ronald J Kimball other posts by this author
Feb 28 2005 3:11PM messages near this date
Re: [perl #34287] perlfaq6: /m matching beyond the first newline
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Re: bignum pragma
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:12:20PM -0000, Dan Jacobson wrote:
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> perlfaq6.pod: "/m" allows caret and dollar to match next to a newline,
> not just at the end of the string.
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> Add: "You'll still need /mg if you want to match beyond the first
> newline."!
I'm not quite sure what that sentence means, but I don't think it's
accurate. For example, I could match beyond the first newline by doing
this C</^(.+)$/ms> or this C</(?:^.+\n)+/m>.
Ronald
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Dan Jacobson
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Ronald J Kimball
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