I think that's a useful mnemonic. And it may help people to remember that those are the only things the /m and /s modifiers affect. The /s modifier only affects whether "." will match a newline. The /m modifier only affects whether ^ and $ can match at embedded newlines in the middle of a string. Other than that, everything else remains unaffected... in particular, "\n" and "\s" will always match newline characters, regardless of what modifiers are set.

-- Mike

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