"Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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No, it doesn't imply that. It says that when you use a Regular Expression
(RE) you can't specify a pattern that spans a paragraph boundary. So, for
example, if I want to search for ABCD there is no way to specify that I
want
to include instances where, e.g. the AB occurs at the end of one paragraph
and the CD occurs at the beginning of the next.
I was missing the RE context. Your explanation makes sense.
Out of curiosity, would it find AB$CD?
In REs, the "$" special character does mean "paragraph mark". It means
that
the preceding pattern must only be considered "found" if it occurs at the
end of a paragraph
Thanks to John Linge's post just prior to yours I sorted all that out and
took a look at the regular expressions for the first time. Very useful. A
lot like the stuff we had to do with DOS editors.
Thanks.
Jerry
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