MatchText and PCRE

[David Wilkinson]

David

Just a couple of points since Mark has already answered very well

Frederic Rinaldi's plugin in the rev development/plugin menu is 
invaluble for testing Rev's regex implementation and porting syntax, 
if you haven't discovered it

Like Mark, I had difficulties with the (?s) switch, though I 
concluded that this was to do with the greediness of the regex engine 
and my ignorance.   I resorted to using repeat for each line since I 
could not get lookbehind to work.

I would also recommend Jeffrey Friedl's illuminating book, though 
probably not reading it as I did during a  couple of sleepless nights 
with a dental abscess.  It is not a recipe book, but then I suspect 
that you already have a good understanding of regex.

David Wilkinson