On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:22:02PM -0500, Andrei Bazhgin wrote: > I am having some problems getting a PCRE to match more then one > newline. Basicaly, I am filtering text ... and there can be no more > then one newline at any part of the text. Not sure I follow you--if you're reading a file line-by-line, you're going to have to try something else. But if you have the whole string in one variable, you should be able to do: s/\n+/\n/g; -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list