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

[Jean Louis]

* Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> [2022-11-27 10:32]:
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> 
> > It means it is not to be used to search for new lines in program, as
> > programs may not have syntax tables.
> >
> > Then this is solution:
> >
> > (rx (one-or-more (or "\n" (any whitespace)))) ➜ "\\(?:
> > \\|[[:space:]]\\)+"
> 
> `rx' has a keyword to mach any char (including whitespace), it's
> called `anychar'.

OK sure, thanks. Though I can't see relation from any char to
searching for whitespaces including new line. How do you mean it?

-- 
Jean

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