Multi-line regular expressions. #4934
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| @@ -699,6 +699,27 @@ For example, the following regex has all three flags turned on: | |||
| julia> match(r"a+.*b+.*?d$"ism, "Goodbye,\nOh, angry,\nBad world\n") | |||
| RegexMatch("angry,\nBad world") | |||
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| Sometimes you want use double-quotes in regular expressions. Escaping them can | |||
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I would shorten this to something like: "You can also use triple-quoted string literals for regular expression, which is convenient for embedding quotation marks and newlines" and then maybe give a single example.
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Multi-line regular expressions.
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Basically, this one-line pull request improves an already outstanding feature as documented in issue #4927. If I ever escape another " it will be too soon.