Re: [External] : Re: Package cl is deprecated

[Michael Heerdegen]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> > [...] why don't you any end-of-line metacharacter, i.e., `$' [1] in
> > your above pattern?
>
> There's no reason to match end-of-line.
> But you can match newline chars.

With other words: "$" _doesn't_ match a newline character, it just
matches the position (the empty string) at a line's end.  If you want to
have matches spanning lines, you must match newline characters in some
way.

Michael.