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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.
-- 
http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/
There is no substitute for experience.

  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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