[CLUE-Talk] Multiline Regex

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Fri Jul 2 12:45:09 MDT 2004


Timothy Klein wrote:

> It is using the convention of _example_ to signal the meaning of old English 
> words in each entry.  So I want to find all these underscore pairs and change
> them to \textit{example}.  It would be super easy if all of them were only a 
> line or less.  But a lot of them span multiple lines, like _a longer
> multiline example_.

I'm not adding anything to the regex part of the discussion, but I did 
find it entertaining that Mozilla Thunderbird actually underlined your 
"_example_" word, and didn't underline the multiline example that 
wrapped.  ;-)

Even they haven't gotten it figured out yet.  ;-)

Nate



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