"." in Perl regular expressions doesn't include CRLFs?

[fredtheman]

Hello

I was looking for the following part...

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<h2 class="titleMain">.+?<span>(.+?)</span>

... but UE doesn't seem to include CRLF for the catch all "." character:

Search string '<h2 class="titleMain">.+?<sp...' not found!

Before I upgrade to a more recent release of UltraEdit, I need to make sure that...

• 15.10 does indeed not support "." as CRLF
• this issue is solved by the latest release of UltraEdit.

Thank you.

[Mofi]

Yes, . does not match newline characters. And that has not changed in latest version of UltraEdit.

If . matches newline characters or not is controlled by flag match_not_dot_newline. That is common for all Perl regular expression implementations. Not common is to which value this flag is set by default. In UltraEdit it is set to true (as it is more secure and most often users do not want searches/replaces over multiple lines).

However, it is quite easy to control this flag by starting the search string with (?s). This little expression at the beginning of the search string tells the Boost regular expression library within UltraEdit to use flag match_not_dot_newline with value false for this search/replace.

[fredtheman]

Thanks Mofi, problem solved.