Re: regexp that matches newline characters?

[Dmitri Minaev]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Line ending char can be matched by \n, but you'll need to double the
> backslash.
>
> However, this is prob what you want:
>
> (some-regex-func "<author>\([^<]+\)</author>" ...)

Thanks, but it won't do the job -- there are embedded tags inside
<author>. That's why I preferred ± to < :)

The regexp should eat anything, like dot, but including all kinds of
whitespaces. Is it possible to do it with character classes? Something
like [[:alnum:][:space:]]* (this one didn't work for me) ?

>
> See here for some explanation and frequently used patterns:
>  http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_regex.html

Very good page, but too short :) Thanks!

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Dmitri Minaev

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