On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Salvatore Iovene wrote:
> Hi, the following regex matches in Perl but not with pcre.
>
> "/^\\*\\*\\*\\*\\s*Starting\\s*FICS\\s*session\\s*as\\s*([^*]+)\\*\\*\\*\\*$/m"
>
> The text that I'm trying to match is a multilined text that has one
> line like this:
>
> **** Starting FICS session as foobar ****
>
> Help appreciated, thanks!
It works in pcretest:
$ pcretest ~/tmp/zz
PCRE version 7.4 2007-09-21
/^\*\*\*\*\s*Starting\s*FICS\s*session\s*as\s*([^*]+)\*\*\*\*$/m
**** Starting FICS session as foobar ****
0: **** Starting FICS session as foobar ****
1: foobar
Even when that is not the first line:
$ pcretest ~/tmp/zz
PCRE version 7.4 2007-09-21
/^\*\*\*\*\s*Starting\s*FICS\s*session\s*as\s*([^*]+)\*\*\*\*$/m
ABCD\n**** Starting FICS session as foobar ****\nXYZ
0: **** Starting FICS session as foobar ****
1: foobar
Philip
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Philip Hazel
