On Friday 05 of October 2012 10:34:04 erik quanstrom wrote:
> > however, i thought of a really sneaky cheat, that is almost correct. 
> > since
> > \n is 0a, and we almost never see 09 or 0b (ht and vt), we could build a
> > sneaky character class to elude the parser:
> > 
> > data	matches	'error[	-]'
> > plumb	start	window
> 
> i didn't think hard enough about mailers mangling this.  what i had was
> 
> data	matches	'error[0x09-0x11]
> 
> of course, replace 0x09 and 0x11 with their literal codepoints.

it's succinct, it works and yes, it went through correctly :D


another possible way -- separate verb for multiline match.


meta -- is it ok to send Git patches as an attachment?


cheers,
-- 
dexen deVries

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