[tpm] Regex question

Daniel Son dsong at meta-for.org
Tue Nov 6 11:47:02 PST 2007


[...]
>   DS> $x =~ s/^foo.*\n?//gm;
>
>   DS> the last ? will ensure that the last line will be matched if there is no 
>   DS> new line
>
> that is what $ does already. $ matches a newline or the end of the
> string. and with /m it matches internal newlines.
>   

The problem is that in /m mode it doesn't match the newline character 
itself.
> uri
>
>   

D


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