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Good question
and therein lies the problem. I can't find any difference other than the inclusion of printf (which is always on the first line).

mndoci

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Re3: regex across multiple lines
by Hofmator (Curate) on Jun 28, 2002 at 09:51 UTC
    Well, so how can you - as a human being - distinguish whether a line is part of a multiline. If you can't do that, then how should the computer be able to do it?

    -- Hofmator

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