[pmwiki-devel] regex in markup question

[John Rankin]

> Saturday, May 22, 2010, 7:28:20 PM, DaveG wrote:
>
>>>   Markup('X:abc', '>[=','/\n(X:\\s*\\d+\\s*\n.*?)\n<:vspace>/se',
>>>      "PreserveAbcText(PSS('$1'))");
>
>> Just a note here, that tunes on the very first list might not get
>> captured by this regex, as there would not be a preceding newline.
>
> You are right! If I leave out the first \n, how do I makesure that
> X: is at the beginning of a line?

I think you can write "/(?:\n|^)(X: ...

BTW, good tip about the <:vspace>!

JR