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* Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote (on 1/29/2007 1:16 PM):
> Michael Chen wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Michael Chen
> 
> 
> Maybe this helps:
> 
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SymbolicRegexp
> 
> I have not looked at sregex myself, but I looked a bit at rx.el.
> 
> 

You live and learn.  I wish I had learned this *last* week! :)

Mark