From: Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>
Subject: Re: delete text block with regexp
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:19:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873ccogor2.fsf@emacswiki.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bp7eub$uf4$04$1@news.t-online.com
Herbert Fritsch <herbfritsch@t-online.de> writes:
> There are some text blocks. They all are different but beginn with the same
> word and end with the same "lastword*".There are many lines. How can I
> delete these blocks with regular expressions?
The critical part is that "." matches anything but a newline.
Therefore use "\(.\|\n\)" for any character or a newline.
Alex.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-16 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-16 9:14 delete text block with regexp Herbert Fritsch
2003-11-16 10:19 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-16 18:19 ` Alex Schroeder [this message]
2003-11-16 23:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-17 0:32 ` Edi Weitz
2003-11-17 5:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-17 10:31 ` Edi Weitz
2003-11-17 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-17 15:42 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-17 16:23 ` Edi Weitz
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