•Re: Re: String Newline Question

$ behaves like (?=\z|\n)

No, it behaves like (?=\n?\z). Yours would match any embedded newline.

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Re: •Re: Re: String Newline Question by Juerd (Abbot) on Mar 23, 2002 at 22:30 UTC
No, it behaves like (?=\n?\z). Yours would match any embedded newline. Oops, I was describing the situation for when `/m` (or `(?m:)`) is in effect, which was not the case. Update - Hm, even if that were the case, it would be wrong. It would behave like `(?=\n\z?\|\z)`. U28geW91IGNhbiBhbGwgcm90MTMgY W5kIHBhY2soKS4gQnV0IGRvIHlvdS ByZWNvZ25pc2UgQmFzZTY0IHdoZW4 geW91IHNlZSBpdD8gIC0tIEp1ZXJk	[reply]