Grep -- How to match segment containing many lines

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sat May 12 19:37:44 EDT 2007


> 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.

For more on how Rev handles it, go to www.pcre.org/man.txt, which is 
the documentation on the PCRE library that Rev uses for regex handling.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/



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