I think that is highly implementation dependent. I guess in this case the Regex matches multilines?

On 2013-07-05, at 07:51, "jannik.laval" <jannik.laval@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, now in the chapter on Regex, it is written that '.' matches only a single character except cr.
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> So, the command "String cr matchesRegex: '.'" should return false in this case.
> But since at least Pharo1.3 (I don't try previous version), it returns true.
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> Jannik
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> On Jul 5, 2013, at 12:33 AM, Camillo Bruni <camillobruni@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Yes this is ok, '.' matches only a single character.
>> The alternatives you might be looking for are #prefixMatchesRegex: or '.*'
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>> On 2013-07-05, at 00:03, "jannik.laval" <jannik.laval@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
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>>> Just a simple question about regex:
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>>> 'a' matchesRegex: '.' --> true
>>> 'aa' matchesRegex: '.' --> false
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>>> As '.' represents any character, the two previous lines are ok. Now, if I test with a cr, it returns true:
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>>> String cr matchesRegex: '.' --> true.
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>>> Is it the expected behavior ?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jannik
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