Formal Review of std.regex (FReD)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/12/11 9:50 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:35:49 +0000, kennytm wrote:
>
>> Most regex flavors don't match '\n' by default unless you supply the "s"
>> flag -- including ECMAScript (well it doesn't even provide the "s" flag
>> to allow '.' to match all characters).
>
> Really? Sense when? I didn't know there was any that didn't match \n. If
> you want to match everything not a new line [^\n].

Kenny's right.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/dot.html

Engines have special options for multiline.


Andrei