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MultiLine Mode

Sunday December 28, 2008
regular expressions can test more than one line at the same time

The eighteenth tutorial on "Regular Expressions" shows you how to process a regular expression against multiple lines of text instead of only one line. This adds the ability to add tests for start and end of line as well as the start and end of the entire text.

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