regular expressions

[0ffh]

torhu wrote:
> 0ffh wrote:
>> [...]
>> To be precise, http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/regular.html says
>> that "." matches any character. I seem to have found at least
>> one exception, the newline character "\n".
 >> [...]
> It's standard in regex syntax that the dot doesn't match a newline. 
> Should probably have been mentioned in the docs, though.
> [...]

Well, that would appear to be the reason, then.
As I have found a trivial workaround, it's just as well.... :)

Thanks, 0ffh