Try (.|\n) instead.
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bennett Haselton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 11:08 PM
Subject: how to represent "any character" (incl. \n) in regexp?
> Since according to p. 25 of "Programming Perl" by Wall, "." stands for
"any
> character except newline" and "\n" stands for "newline", and [<set>]
> matches "any character in <set>", I thought you could use "[.\n]" to match
> "any character":
>
> >>>
> $string = 'abc';
> if ($string =~ /([.\n])/)
> {
> print "yes: $1\n";
> }
> else
> {
> print "no\n";
> }
> >>>
>
> But this prints out "no". It turns out that inside the square brackets,
> "." represents the period character and not "any character"; if you change
> string to "a.bc", the script print "yes: ." . In that case, how do you
> represent "any character" inside a regexp?
>
> -Bennett
>
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