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On 25 Sep 2000, Matt Pharr wrote:

> Since there's a lot of arcane magic in figuring out these multi-line
> regexps (I'd never be able to put together magic like the above,
> much as I hate the egroups banners), I've got a suggested patch that
> I just cooked up.

Well, \\(.\\|\n\\)* matches a sequence of zero or more characters,
including newline characters.  Hence, "x\\(.\\|\n\\)*y" matches from
the first x to the last y in a message.

The problems start when you have two banners in a message, one at the
beginning and one at the end.  If both start with x and end with y,
the above regex will do the wrong thing.

kai
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