in reply to Regex, Newline, Wilcard

The dot in a character class matches a literal dot, not any character. You'd need to say "(?:.|\n)" or use the /s modifier to get the dot to match newline also (and then don't use the character class).

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Re^2: Regex, Newline, Wilcard
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 27, 2009 at 22:28 UTC

    You'd need to say "(?:.|\n)"

    or "(?s:.)"

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