Re: line-spanning regexp

[Greg Hill]

At 3:59 PM -0800 1/14/03, Tennis Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I construct a regexp that looks for two strings that *might* span
> two consecutive lines? 
>
> For example, I need a regexp that will find string1 and string2 and
> everything in between for the following scenarios:
>
>
> blah blah blah blah string1 blah blah string2 blah blah blah
>
> -OR-
>
> blah blah string1 blah
> string2 blah blah
>
> TIA,
> -Tennis

"string1[^\n]*[\n]?[^\n]*string2"

--Greg