[Tutor] Regular expressions - Ignoring linefeeds

[Kent Johnson]

Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> Kent Johnson wrote:
>> Luke Paireepinart wrote:
>>> Your RE is wrong.
>>> Refer to http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html
>>> * Causes the resulting RE to match 0 or more repetitions of the 
>>> preceding RE, as many repetitions as are possible. ab* will match 
>>> 'a', 'ab', or 'a' followed by any number of 'b's.
>>>     
>>
>> The RE that is repeated is . which is the intent.
>>   
> Yeah, sorry.  I thought there was a space after the ., which wouldn't 
> work, right?

Right, if there was a space, the space would be the repeated item.

Kent