Good guess, but the original RE didn't support any variations of
whitespace, so it wouldn't have matched a multi-line string anyway...
However, if the OP didn't provide the exact RE he used, he could try
setting PERLIO=crlf in his environment and see if that helps.
One thing that he may also be missing is that the '/s' flag will retain
all the characters, even though it runs the RE over one string, so that
string may (and usually will) contain newlines, which have to be accounted
for in the RE.
Igor
P.S. Oh, and <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>, even the list
address. Thanks.
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Wardman_Michael wrote:
> I wonder if the "/s" on the end is getting a newline problem somewhere?
>
> This might explain the Windows vs. Cygwin behaviour, as they can be
> configured to have different line endings.
>
> I've had to modify a lot of scripts to run under Cygwin by adding:
> xxxx | tr -d '\r'
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: cygwin-perl: matching behaves weird
>
> Now, this may be old news for many of you, but I'm new to cygwin, so please
> don't shoot. I'd be happy if someone would post me a link to the solution.
>
> I'm doing quite strightforward matching using regular expressions in
> perl (as you can see below) and the code used to work just fine on the
> ActiveState perl, but behaves very strange with cygwin Perl:
>
> -------------
> unless ($page =~ /<a href="\#" onClick="window\.open\('(popBibTex.cfm\?.+?)',/s)
> -------------
>
> It simply does not match. I tried playing around, cuting certain suspicios
> parts, and here is what I found out:
>
> -------------
> unless ($page =~ /on\Click="window\.open\('(popBibTex.cfm\?.+?)',/s)
> -------------
>
> this does match. (notice the \ before C)
>
> What's up? (::confused;)
>
> I'm runing Win_XP_Pro/SP2, just installed Cygwin (and all
> tools/packages/modules that were available through the web install utility).
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