Hi monks and everyone!

For the sake of information this question has been posted on stackexchange too.

I'm dealing with regexp on a textfile. The problem is that i need to match strings that are splitted in 2 lines. Something like this:

Regexp: /kitten/ (or something more complicated is the same) text file: (this is only an example my original file is a huge 5Gb txt with long lines) 
sushikitten --> match
ilovethekit --> i've lost one no match (BAD)
tensushithe
kittenisthe ---> ok again

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If there's a solution without taking chunks of the file and loading them on a string, or without strange buffers and things like that would be great; because sometimes the matching string in my case can be long as *multiple* lines of the file.

In reply to Regexp matching on a multiline file: dealing with line breaks by BlueStarry

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