Re: Multiline regex

[S Boucher]

----- Original Message -----

> and wish to replace the "paragraphs" a..b.  Using re-builder (and 
> based
> on http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultilineRegexp) I have constructed a
> successfully matching regex:
> 
> "a\\(.*
> ?\\)*?*b"

The expression, has some weird things.  * means 0-to-n occurences, ? means 
0-or-1 occurences.  So, you probably do not want *?*.

Try M-x regexp-builder

It's a nice interactive way to put together your regexp.