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Hi,

How do I construct a regexp that looks for two strings that *might* span
two consecutive lines?  

For example, I need a regexp that will find string1 and string2 and 
everything in between for the following scenarios:


blah blah blah blah string1 blah blah string2 blah blah blah

-OR-

blah blah string1 blah
string2 blah blah

TIA,
-Tennis