idiom for RE matching

[Gordon Airporte]

memracom at yahoo.com wrote:

> Have you read and understood what MULTILINE means in the manual
> section on re syntax?
> 
> Essentially, you can make a single pattern which tests a match against
> each line.
> 
> -- Michael Dillon

No, I have not looked into this - thank you. RE's are hard enough to get 
into that I didn't want the added complication of the flags. Now that 
I'm comfortable writing patterns I guess I never got around to the rest 
of the options.