#8 Regular Expression $ matches EOF not EOL

[Anonymous]

Regular Expression ^a.*$ replace with test

on a text like:

dsf
ee
sdd
f
a
afdgdfg
rdfgdfg

replaces everything from first occurence of a at beginning of line (line 5 in this case) to End of File resulting in:

dsf
ee
sdd
f
test

OS: WindowsXP SP2
Tested with Versions of Madedit: 0.27 and 0.28

[jojo4u]

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You don't realize that dot also matches newline in Madedit. The $ matches just as expected. You have to use a non-greedy quantifier to match one line:
^.*?$

[jywhltj]

I have added a option for this:
https://github.com/hltj/wxMEdit/issues/108
The default value of "Enable dot matching newline" is false. You can enable it in misc tab of option dialog.

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