Robert J Taylor wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] inquired: > > >> This regex looks familiar. I'm going to suggest a big change in a > >> bit. > >> Oh, and [\s|\S], which could be [\s\S], is kind of awkward. > > > what is less awkward than [\s|\S] for 'match anything?' > >. > >Yes ->.<- > >Dot, period, point, et al, is the universal match "something" symbol. So, >m'.*$' matches everthing on a line. If you want to match a period you can >either escape it: \. or bracket it [.]. Escaping is better for simple >matching.
Almost... From "perldoc perlretut": \s is a whitespace character and represents [\ \t\r\n\f] \S is a negated \s; it represents any non-whitespace character [^\s] The period '.' matches any character but "\n" So, /[\s\S]/ would match a "\n", while /./ would not. The equivalent of /[\s\S]/, using period notation, would be /[.\n]/ Alan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
