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From: gpaa29@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk (F.Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Multiple line regexps
Keywords: regexp, multiple lines
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.075645.26494@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Jun 91 07:56:45 GMT
References: <1991Jun2.231351.10229@trl.oz.au> <1991Jun4.215913.25633@sq.sq.com>
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You might like to look at the article 'The Text Editor sam' by Rob Pike
in Software--Practice and Experience (1987) _17_, 813-845. Pike describes
the way sam handles "structural regular expressions", where the file is
treated as a single string with matchable newlines.

The original reference is: R.Pike, 'Structural Regular Expressions,' Proc.
EUUG Spring Conf., Helsinki 1987, European Unix User's Group, Buntingford,
Herts, UK.
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