On 9/27/18 at 7:14 AM, [email protected] (Thomas Green) wrote:

I need to find all lines that contain an odd number of single straight quotes, such as

full_title: '_Acteon's Cantate Burlesque_'

Is there any bound on how many single quotes a line can contain?

Absent that, Fletcher's suggestion (or some similar context-dependent condition) is likely your best bet.


[...] That surprised me, I thought the * character didn't match /r or /n.

For reference, it's the . 'any character' metacharacter which doesn't match line breaks by default, not the repetition quantifiers * + ?


Regards,

 Patrick Woolsey
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