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Re: Multiline regex
From: |
S Boucher |
Subject: |
Re: Multiline regex |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:46:17 -0800 (PST) |
----- Original Message -----
> and wish to replace the "paragraphs" a..b. Using re-builder (and
> based
> on http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultilineRegexp) I have constructed a
> successfully matching regex:
>
> "a\\(.*
> ?\\)*?*b"
The expression, has some weird things. * means 0-to-n occurences, ? means
0-or-1 occurences. So, you probably do not want *?*.
Try M-x regexp-builder
It's a nice interactive way to put together your regexp.