<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [TxMt] regex question</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> > So I just read in the documentation: >> [...] it is not possible to use a pattern that matches multiple >> lines. [...] Not true (if you are talking about find and replace searching). Enable multiline searching using (?m) the pattern "(?m)get.*Kend" will find one match in the following example text (hit cntrl-cmd-E to open this email in textmate and then select the pattern and hit cmd-E to try it out Papers to get Newton Morton (Southhampton high IQ geneticist) Eaves et al. 2005 Kendler (and Eaves?) 2005 Extended phenotype I like this help page for Oniguruma <a href="http://www.jpsoft.com/help/index.htm?regularexpressionsyntax.htm">http://www.jpsoft.com/help/index.htm?regularexpressionsyntax.htm</a> Other powerful underused options are: (?i) = ignore case (?#greatly simplifies reg ex for words where caps vary) (?# oh yes # allows comments – very handy when writing bundles you want to be more explanatory:-) </BODY> </HTML>