On Monday, February 18, 2013 4:38:56 PM UTC-6, MarcWeber wrote:
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> So why should anybody write [^\n] if you can use '.'? So why make [^\n]
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> behave the same way?
Sometimes the meaning is clearer.
What if you're searching for a sequence of certain characters including newlines, where the first character is NOT a newline?
I'd probably want to use:
/[^\n]\&[a-f0-9\n]\+
which is equivalent to, but clearer in meaning than:
/.\&[a-f0-9\n]\+
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