[Gllug] simple sed question

[Bruce Richardson]

On 10/15/01, 12:09:10 PM, tet at accucard.com wrote regarding Re: [Gllug] 
simple sed question :


> >not too sure about the sed, but watch out with the ^M, to reproduce it 
(in
> >vi at least) you need to use:
> >
> >Ctrl-V
> >Ctrl-M

> Also note that despite its name, sed is line based, rather than truly
> stream based, so you can't match patterns across lines, and hence its
> probably not the right tool to use here.

GNU sed supports a newline in the regexp, as do some other 
implementations, and has no maximum line length so you can match across 
as many lines as you care to.

-- 

Bruce

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