Grep -- How to match segment containing many lines

[Sivakatirswami]

Jim Ault wrote:
> you should look at the (?) directive syntax
> 
> such as (?i) = case sensitive
> (?si) = ignore line endings + case sensitive
> (?Usi) = ungreedy + ignore + sensitive
> 
> I think you want [greedy + ignore line endings] so use
> 
> put "(?s)<div id="linklist">(.*?)</html>" into regEx
> get matchChunk(textBlock,regEx,charpos1,charpos2)
> delete char charpos1 to charpos2 of textBlock
> 
> This should get you close to what you want.
> 
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
> 


Jim, thanks... that's it.

(?s)<div id="linklist">(.*?)</html>
does it... and I found the section in the BBEdit help on
"Perl-Style Pattern Extensions"  where all this is
explained...

"s       allow. to match \r"

Marvelous!  The unintuitive part is that this pattern
or "toggle" must begin the entire expression.

Sivakatirswami
www.himalayanacademy.com