Re: How to grep for a string spanning multiple lines?

[Jean Louis]

(re-search-forward "friend.*\n.*while")

* Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> [2022-11-27 09:56]:
> On 2022-11-26, at 15:55, Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> wrote:
> 
> > Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> >
> >> I remember that someone in some video said something, and
> >> I want to find that part. However, it turns out that it is
> >> split between two (or more) lines.
> >
> > (re-search-forward ";; Hello my friend\n;; stay a while, and listen")
> >
> > ;; Hello my friend
> > ;; stay a while, and listen
> 
> Well, that's obviously cheating.  The real problem is how to search when
> you have no idea where you have spaces and where you have
> newlines...

Problem is so much less when using regular expressions, see above.


-- 
Jean

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