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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Michael Chen" <vancouver.michael@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: how can I make regexp expression effective across many lines
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:40:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICAEMGDKAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71ab86070701291301q34ea49e8ked19710cad016517@mail.gmail.com>

> Hi, there, I have problem with newlines in regexp. Here is what I want
> to do: delete anything between <FORM> to TIP OF THE WEEK inclusively.
> There are many lines in between. Any regex I tried can not go through
> the newline. Any idea? Thanks.

 . matches any character except a newline character.
 [^\n] matches any character.

Interactively, use C-q C-j to insert a newline character itself in the
regexp, in place of \n. See the Elisp manual, node Syntax of Regexps, in
particular about the treatment of backslash.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-29 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-29 21:01 how can I make regexp expression effective across many lines Michael Chen
2007-01-29 21:16 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-29 21:40 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-01-29 21:47   ` Drew Adams
2007-01-29 22:11 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.3755.1170105424.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 23:00   ` Mark Elston
     [not found] <mailman.3753.1170104495.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 21:26 ` Pascal Bourguignon
     [not found] <mailman.3757.1170107259.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-29 23:05 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2007-01-29 23:52   ` Drew Adams

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