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Subject: Re: qshell - grep removes CR from lines ?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 08:45:56 -0600
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R Bruce Hoffman wrote:

Most common problem for people with regular expressions, repeat after me... dot does NOT match new line.

in unix dot means: [^\n]
in windows dot means: [^\r\n]

According to my regex pocket reference, dot "." means match (almost) any character except new line.

".*" means match any occurrence of any character.

To match a new line in a regular expression you would use "\n". The regular expression processor should be able to determine how new line is represented.

david

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