Re: delete text block with regexp

[Alex Schroeder]

Herbert Fritsch <herbfritsch@t-online.de> writes:

> There are some text blocks. They all are different but beginn with the same
> word and end with the same "lastword*".There are many lines. How can I
> delete these blocks with regular expressions? 

The critical part is that "." matches anything but a newline.
Therefore use "\(.\|\n\)" for any character or a newline.

Alex.
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