Re^3: regexp over multiple lines

Thanks for the reply :-)

So, if my file looked like this:

line1data
line2data
line3data
line4data
<homePrice>
1.91</homePrice>
line7data
line8data
line9data
[download]

...and I was forced to process the file line by line in a for loop, what regexp would I use (if any are possible) to extract the value of 1.91 by matching both lines?

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Re^4: regexp over multiple lines by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 03, 2011 at 08:31 UTC
You're solving the wrong problem. It's not a magical regexp you need. It's the "process the file line by line" that needs changing.	[reply]
Re^5: regexp over multiple lines by liverpaul (Acolyte) on Aug 03, 2011 at 09:12 UTC
Yeah, I'm beginning to see that now. Unfortunately there's a lot of code built on the incorrect foundation of line-by-line. I'm eventually going to change to "slurping", but for now I'm going try to "force" a messy solution. From my understanding I think I can do this by concatenating 3 or 4 lines. Maybe it will work, time will tell.	[reply]