Re: slrn kill line greater than 30 chars long SOLUTION

On 18 Nov 2007 20:04:03 GMT, Jörg Lüders wrote:
Bit Twister <BitTwister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Thank you.
Solution was just a bunch of dots.
Organization: [..................................]

That's what I meant with my first suggestion, but without the brackets.
I'd expect your pattern to match anything with a dot in it.

Dot is a wildcard for any character. Had I wanted a dot match in the text I
would have to escape it with a backslash \.
.

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