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[Marc Antony Vose]

hey davids:

many thanks.  i was trying in my head to create a match for the 
beginning of the tag, then anything that is not "</sup>", and then 
</sup>.

many times, like now, i find that my strategy is wrong with pattern matching.

cheers,

marc




>Yes, you're correct. Good catch! /s (or '}s' in this case) is 
>required to make "." match newlines as well as any other character.
>
>David
>
>David Mintz wrote:
>
>>I'm no guru so maybe I missed something but -- it looks like the regex
>>assumes all the stuff will be on a single line. If you want to allow the
>>possibility that there are newlines between <sup> and </sup>, add the s
>>modifier.
>>
>>Right?
>>
>>On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, David Sklar wrote:
>>
>>>The regular expression '|<sup
>>>class="gt_article_footnote">([^</sup>]+)</sup>|'
>>>
>>>Says
>>>
>>>"match the literal text '<sup class="gt_article_footnote">' then one or
>>>more characters that aren't <, /, s, u, p, or >, then the literal text
>>>'</sup>'"
>>>
>>>You want
>>>
>>>{<sup class="gt_article_footnote">(.+?)</sup>}
>
>
>
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