> > > Can you please verify whether a newline should match the . > > > meta-character > > > in string mode? Is the newline character considered 'any > character'? > > > > Yes, you have read the spec correctly. > > > > Thank you for that explanation. > > It follows, then, that the second set of examples in section > 6.3.15.3 of > the F&O spec are incorrect. More precisely: > > xf:matches(., "Kaum.*krähen", "m") returns true (example 2) > > xf:matches(., "^Kaum.*gesehen,$", "m") returns false (example 3) > > > I suspect the source data should contain a newline > immediately following > 'gesehen,' as that would solve these problems. > > Cheers, > Jennifer Yes, you are right. The example has been mis-formatted in the published document. It should be a stanza containing four lines. Thanks for pointing this out, I will ask the editors to correct it. Michael Kay > > -- > Jennifer "Georgina" Schachter, Software Engineer > DecisionSoft Ltd. http://www.decisionsoft.com > Office: +44 (0) 1865 203192 > > >Received on Sunday, 20 October 2002 18:41:57 UTC
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