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At 3:59 PM -0800 1/14/03, Tennis Smith wrote:
>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

"string1[^\n]*[\n]?[^\n]*string2"

--Greg