Hi Per, Actually \n matches a newline. $ matches before a newline, ie. the end of a line before the invisible newline itself. Therefore, ^ and $ match after and before a newline (\n), respectively.
At least that's my understanding. And this isn't the issue for me. It's figuring out how to get multiline mode to work in a rule.... - Jeremy "Per Jessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeremy Fairbrass wrote: > Hi all, > I hope someone can help me with a rule I'm trying to write. My > understanding of the multi-line mode, with the /m switch at the end, > is this: in this mode, the caret (^) and dollar ($) match before and > after newlines in the string. Is that correct? Hi Jeremy, a $ will match a newline, whether before or after something. /Per Jessen, Zürich