Regex problem with multiline matches

[Darrell]

Or

>>> print re.compile( "(?s).*?b(.)").match( "aa\nbb" )
<re.MatchObject instance at 7ff780>

--Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com>
To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb at yahoo.com>
Cc: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: Regex problem with multiline matches


>
>     >>>> print re.compile( "b(.)", re.M ).match( "aa\nbb" )
>     None
>
> Randall,
>
> The match method anchors the search at the beginning of the string.  Try
the
> search method instead:
>
>     >>> print re.compile( "b(.)", re.M ).search( "aa\nbb" )
>     <re.MatchObject instance at 8125338>
>
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