Re: Why are RegExps never working?

[Sven Bretfeld]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> I'm not sure whether it's described so clearly. The main thing is that
> text is line oriented and therefore $ states end of line. And
> therefore regular expressions end at line's end. So in the middle of
> the from part $ cannot have another meaning than the character $
> itself. If the from part has to stretch over more than one line, then
> each line ending has to be expressed with the linefeed character that
> separates the text into more than one line. Could be sometimes a
> carriage return (^M) has to be used, or some combination of carriage
> return and linefeed ...

Aha, I see. Now, more things I noticed in my few experiences with
RegExps become clear. Sometimes I search and replace longer regexps
and wonder why some are always skipped. Now I understand: these are
the ones extending over more than one line.

Thank you

Sven

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