On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:02:31PM -0500, Complex wrote: > what always used to get me is line-breaks. So expand Ken's answer by > allowing line break characters to follow sail: > > sail[\w\W]*?;" > > (AND: does anyone know a better way to do this? There's a switch you > can use when doing this in Perl, right, so am I missing a similar > option in BBEdit?)
Perl's /s modifier turns on single-line mode, which allows period to match a newline. (?s) can be used to embed the modifier in the regex: (?s:sail.*?;") Of course, the original poster will have to decide whether newlines should be allowed there. Ronald -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
