I defined a line as either "zero or more non-newline characters followed by a newline (/.*\n/)" or "one or more non-newline characters (/.+/)". That way,
- "foo\nbar\n" is considered to have two lines ("foo\n" and "bar\n")
- "foo\nbar" is considered to have two lines ("foo\n" and "bar")
That's the same behaviour as <FH>.
If I had used /.*\n?/ instead of /.*\n|.+/, "foo\nbar\n" would have been considered to have three lines ("foo\n", "bar\n" and ""). Always be wary of patterns that can match zero characters.
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