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Re: search a string in a non-regular fileby BillKSmith (Monsignor) |
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I suspect that you are having a problem with multi-line strings. A period does not match a newline (unless you use the /s flag). The anchors ^ and $ refer to beginning and end of the string, not the line (unless you specify /m)
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