[cc'ed in order to avoid another "does not turn up... yet" lag]
On Tue, 28 May 2002 10:50:41 +0100, Alan Fry wrote:
>In the first place you have to use $` to get the starting point of
>the 'info-block', which is not very nice.
Wow, hold it. Didn't you read all of my message? (;-) I did point
towards the @- array, didn't I, which contains the offset of the start
for all submatches, with $-[0] pointing towards the start of the whole
match? Likewise, @+ contains the offsets of the end of the submatches.
>The third difficulty is avoiding a false match
>(of the kind Axel mentions). In the ordinary run of events one would
>match to /^14 0 obj/. But here you have to be careful because the PDF
>file can have any of the three line-endings. I think a regex of the
>kind /\012|\01514 0 obj/ would probably be water-tight, but I haven't
>tried it.
/(?<=[\n\r])14 0 obj/
will likely do.
--
Bart.
