Re: regexp with match over multiple lines

[AngusC]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 05.05.2011 um 20:15 schrieb AngusC:
> 
>>       ]]>^M
>>    </description>
>>
>> and I am using:
>> <\1\[CDATA.*^J*>
> 
> 
> If you see ^M then you should switch to some DOS or MAC encoding. But  
> what's puzzling me is that not all lines have ^M at the end. Does this  
> work: "<!\[CDATA\[[^>]+>"? I think other expressions would become too  
> greedy...
> 
> BTW, is this \1 what you are really using or is it a typo, actually  
> meaning "!"? (Which isn't special in Lisp, I think.)
> 

Interestingly I made a mistake in missing out the first " character and it
worked.

This is what works:
<!\[CDATA\[[^>]+>"?

But not "<!\[CDATA\[[^>]+>"?

Anyway, I don't understand what the " bit in there is doing (nor some of the
other stuff) so I will study further.  Thanks a lot.


Yes the \1 was a type - meant to be \!

The file was created from a perl script - so yes ^M is not something I
usually see in other files.

Angus

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