Documentation TPIPE, /perl, DotMatchesNewLines

vefatica · 2020-08-10

The help says

TPIPE - Text filtering, search, and substitution
DotMatchesNewLines - Allow the '.' operator to match all characters, including new lines. Default is true.

The default actually seems to be FALSE. Below, the search criterion spans three lines so DotMatchesNewLines is desired.

Code:

v:\> type tag.html
before
<body>
inside
</body>
after

v:\> tpipe /input=tag.html /replace=4,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,"(<body>.*</body>)","$1"

v:\> tpipe /input=tag.html /replace=4,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,"(<body>.*</body>)","$1" /perl=,,,0

v:\> tpipe /input=tag.html /replace=4,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,"(<body>.*</body>)","$1" /perl=,,,1
<body>
inside
</body>
v:\>

rconn · 2020-08-12

The default is TRUE. But it's only the default when you actually use the /perl option (i.e., if you don't provide all of the optional arguments, DotMatchesNewLines defaults to TRUE).

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