On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 01:28:36PM -0700, Bill Rowe wrote:
> On 5/22/10 at 12:15 PM, [email protected] (Gabriel Roth) wrote:
>
> >Is there a grep special character that matches any character
> >including a line break? I find myself using (\s|\S) and suspect that
> >there must be a shorter way.
[\s\S] is a shorter by a whole character... :D
> From the grep reference in BBEdit Help menu
>
> s -- By default, the magic dot metacharacter . matches any
> character except return ("\r"). If you turn this option on with
> (?s) , however, dot will match any character. Thus, the pattern
> (?s).+ will match an entire document.
>
> So, the pattern to match any single character including line
> breaks would be (?s).
And (?s:.) is useful if you only want to change the meaning of . in part of
the pattern.
Ronald
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