> -----Original Message-----
> From: SteveKing [mailto:steveking@gmx.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 12:31 PM
> To: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: [TSVN] Auto-completion list
>
> Josha Foust wrote:
> > I wanted to put a '^' on the front of that to only match the beginning
> of
> > the line, but it doesn't seem to work. It would make it a lot more
> accurate
> > if I could.
>
> Is '^' really the beginning of a line? According to
> http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html
> it matches the beginning of the string the regex is applied to. And that
> is not the beginning of a line but the whole file.
>
> Maybe a '\r\n' would work instead?
>
> Stefan
>
That reference says:
Matches at the start of the string the regex pattern is applied to. Matches
a position rather than a character. Most regex flavors have an option to
make the caret match after line breaks (i.e. at the start of a line in a
file) as well.
Most tools with regex I have worked with apply regex to lines only. That
makes using '^' and '$' easy since you can ignore the complications of
different OS line endings. Multi-line matching is the exception in my
experience. I think Perl has a special option for multi-lines matches?
I can certainly work with it that way, however.
Thanks,
Josha Foust
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Received on Wed Feb 16 19:48:04 2005