that's it! thanks so much john!
yay! never knew about the s modifier.
adam
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:38:59 +1300
> From: John Rankin <john.ran...@affinity.co.nz>
> To: pmwiki-devel@pmichaud.com
> Subject: Re: [pmwiki-devel] custom markup question...
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> On 13/12/10 11:00 AM, adam overton wrote:
>> i'm trying to create a custom markup device that captures text and inserts
>> other markup for any text lying between (:newmarkup:) and (:newmarkupend:)
>>
>> Markup('createColumns', 'fulltext',
>> '/\\(:createColumns\\s+(.*)\\s*:\\)(.*)\\(:createColumnsend:\\)/ie',
>> 'CreateColumns_func("$1","$2")'
>> );
>>
>> any idea how i can get my markup to span the entire distance?
> Try /ies in the match pattern -- the 's' should make the regular
> expression keep going past line endings.
>
> JR
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