Re: Weird problem matching with REs

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Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> writes:

> I was able to make a regex that matches in my code, but it shouldn't:
> http://x264.nl/x264/64bit/8bit_depth/revision.\n{1,3}[0-9]{4}.\n{1,3}/x264.\n{1,3}.\n{1,3}.exe
> I have to add a dot before each "\n". There is no character not
> accounted for before those newlines, but I don't get a match without the
> dots. I also need both those ".\n{1,3}" sequences before the ".exe". I'm
> really confused.
>
> Using Python 3.2 on Windows, in case it matters.

You are aware that most text-emitting processes on Windows, and Internet
text protocols like the HTTP standard, use the two-character “CR LF”
sequence (U+000C U+000A) for terminating lines?

    <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline>

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Weird problem matching with REs Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 06:45 -0500
  Re: Weird problem matching with REs Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-29 23:00 +1000
    Re: Weird problem matching with REs Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-05-29 23:03 +1000
    Re: Weird problem matching with REs Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 08:29 -0500
  Re: Weird problem matching with REs Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-29 13:09 +0000
    Re: Weird problem matching with REs Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 08:41 -0500
      Re: Weird problem matching with REs Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-29 14:18 +0000
        Re: Weird problem matching with REs Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 09:35 -0500
          Re: Weird problem matching with REs John S <jstrickler@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 08:48 -0700
            Re: Weird problem matching with REs Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 11:16 -0500
              Re: Weird problem matching with REs John S <jstrickler@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 09:45 -0700
            Re: Weird problem matching with REs Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 03:57 +1000
      Re: Weird problem matching with REs Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-05-29 11:19 -0400
        Re: Weird problem matching with REs Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-05-29 10:31 -0500
          Re: Weird problem matching with REs Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-05-29 21:06 +0200

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